A group in the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Concerned APC Frontiers has expressed concern over a viral publication that showed that the two APC senators from the state reportedly voted against Senator Godswill Akpabio in the Senate leadership election.
Expressing shock that the two APC senators from Delta State may have voted for Senator Abdulazziz Yari, the Concerned APC Frontiers called on the party’s 2023 governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege to quickly investigate the issue as they alleged that it connotes disloyalty by the senators to the leadership of the party.
The statement issued by Chief Bokimor Francis, Hon Lugard Omatsone and Odoku Paul on behalf of the APC Frontiers averred that “their choice of candidate clearly shown on the purported list is not only embarrassing but a flagrant disloyalty to the party and wish of the party.
“That this show of disloyalty displayed by these distinguished senators who should know better, depicts a calibrated attempt to paint all APC delta state members particularly Delta south and Delta central senatorial District to be on the same page in their act of disloyalty.
Continuing, the group averred:
“That this list potentially puts the former Deputy senate President , Distinguished Senator Ovie Omo Agege in a very bad light especially the vote of the delta central senator who is from the same constituency.”
Concluding, the group called on Senator Omo-Agege to investigate the issue even as the APC Concerned Frontiers claimed that the alleged vote against Akpabio may have reflected the animosity between the new Senate President and the former deputy president of the Senate.
The group recalled that Akpabio had been accused of stalling the inauguration of the board of the Niger Delta Commission, NDDC that had Omo-Agege’s nominee as managing director of the commission.
