ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Mr. Charles Aniagwu, the Delta Commissioner for Information, said Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, of the All Progressive Congress (APC), has no hold in the state and cannot win election.
Speaking in Asaba on Thursday, Aniagwu said that it would take a miracle for the deputy senate president, Omo-Agege to win the 2023 governorship election in Delta.
He said despite the current court tussle over the party’s governorship candidacy, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was very strong and popular in the state.
The commissioner said that over the years the PDP had done quite well in the state having progressively won elections in all senatorial districts in the state.
According to him, the greatest disadvantage the APC has in Delta is not only the fact that Omo-Agege is not truly on the ground but largely because of the very ineffective performance of the APC at the national level.
“Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege is someone I have immense respect for and he knows it because I can actually call him a senior friend because once in a while we interact.
“He has all the rights to contest but he knows that when it comes to Delta, it will take a miracle for him running on the platform of the APC to be able to win.
”This is because apart from the fact that Delta is almost synonymous with the PDP, the performance of Governor Okowa in the last seven and half years has dealt a very big blow to the APC.
“And the chances of APC in Delta have been further worsened by the abysmal performance of the APC at the National level, especially in the area of the economy, education, security, and their inability to manage our diversity.
“In 2019, they had federal might yet we taught them a lesson, a bitter one at that.
“In 2015, Okowa won 21 local government areas out of 25, and in 2019, in spite of their strength with Omo-Agege, Ogboru, Emerhor and all of them put together, Okowa won in 23 local government areas.
“He didn’t just win them in Delta North and Delta South, he went to their stronghold in Delta Central and won in six LGAs out of eight LGAs and what that tells you is that the PDP has continued to expand and deepen its roots across the state,” Aniagwu said.