Former President General of the foremost Urhobo socio-cultural body, Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Chief Joe Omene, has taken the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Ovie Omo-Agege, to the cleaners, saying that Deltans will be making a huge mistake to vote him as governor in 2023.
Omene in a six minutes and 57 seconds viral video, described Omo-Agege, who is the current deputy senate president, as a serial betrayer of those he has crossed their paths in the political space.
He said Omo-Agege is worse than any politician from Urhobo nation, pointing out that the APC candidate “is a very greedy man, self-centred, and everyday, when I see him criticize Governor Okowa in the papers I just laugh. Assuming he becomes governor, he will be far worse.
“People will not believe me now. He is also a betrayer. Just look at the people he started working with, he has betrayed all of them.
“Was it not somebody that brought him out? Did the person not make him private secretary and later secretary to the state government?
“But because he didn’t get the ticket, did he not betray Ibori? Ibori was betrayed by people he put in position because they did not get the governorship,” he said.
Omene continued with another salvo on the DSP, explaining how he betrayed Ogboru who made him senator twice.
“Is it not Ogboru who made him senator two times? But because he felt that Ogboru will go for two tenures if elected governor, he betrayed him,” he added.
According to the former UPU PG, Omo-Agege, as DSP, attracted federal presence only to his Orogun hometown, thereby neglecting other parts of Delta central where he represents at the Red Chamber of the National Assembly.
“They brought law school, he took it to Orogun; they brought polytechnic, he took it to Orogun; and many other things which he took to Orogun. He did not site anyone in any other part of Urhobo land.
“That will tell you the kind of governor he will be assuming some people foolishly vote for him. He does not have the overall interest of Urhobo nation at heart,” Omene claimed.
He further stated that Omo-Agege later turned around to call those who endorsed him ‘insurgents’ after he emerged as DSP..
His words: “We endorsed him without any preconditions and even wrote to President Buhari as the umbrella body of Urhobo ethnic nation, but he later called us insurgents after he had got the position.
“He called us insurgents, but when we were endorsing him we were not insurgents o. After endorsing him and getting what he wanted, we became insurgents. How can a lawyer say something like that about people who were in court? It’s not proper for a lawyer.”
