Former Senate Deputy President and Delta State APC governorship candidate in the 2023 general election, Ovie Omo-Agege, has dismissed rumors suggesting that he is planning to leave the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement released on Tuesday, Omo-Agege’s media adviser, Sunny Areh, described the claims as unfounded and a product of speculative journalism without any truth.
“In the weird publication, it was alleged that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Deputy President of the Senate in the 9th Session, is scheming to abandon the All Progressives Congress, APC, to team up with Mallam Nasir el-Rufai to float a phantom new political party. The story is not only shocking but idiotic.
“Having led the APC to its best ever performance in the 2023 general elections in Delta State where the party won two of the three senatorial seats and Senator Ovie Omo-Agege was narrowly cheated from coasting to victory in the Governorship election, associating his name with the political group the former Kaduna State governor is said to be working on is a clear case of fable without any basis whatsoever.
“The story is the product of a hatchet job orchestrated by political forces whose only path to relevance is to create a wedge between Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” he said.