Emefiele was enlisted by Omo-Agege to thwart Tinubu’s presidential campaign – Delta APC

The All Progressives Congress chapter in Delta State claims that Ovie Omo-Agege, a former deputy senate president, was responsible for suspending Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele’s bid for the presidency in order to thwart Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s aspirations.

The claim was disclosed in a letter written to the President on Monday titled, “Attempts by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege to scuttle presidential ambition of President Bola Tinubu through recruitment of Mr Godwin Emefiele, anti-Tinubu campaign stance and anti-party activities.”

State APC Secretary Inana Michael, Delta North Chairman Tom Onah, South Chairman Nelson Ogharama, and Central Chairman Michael Orunefe all signed the letter, which was provided to Newsmen.

The statement partly read: “Your Excellency, you will recall that at a point ahead of the party’s National Convention in June 2022, members, especially those of us from Ika South Local Government Area, got information Omo-Agege had plans to issue party membership card to the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and we objected to his plans. We told him it was not morally right for Emefiele to contest and that it will affect your chances to secure the Presidential ticket.

“All efforts to make Omo-Agege see reasons fell on deaf ears but he convinced Emefiele and assured him that he would get the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, whom he planted as a spy, to help get Emefiele the ticket.”

The party referenced a story in the May 9, 2022, “which confirmed the story that the APC Ward chairman eventually gave Emefiele the membership card in February, 2021.”

“The name of the ward chairman is Mr Nduka Erikpume and the Ika South APC Local Government Chairman is Hilary FadaIbude.

“These two were the ones who also signed our state leaders’ expulsion letters on the instructions of Omo-Agege. Their offence was that they opposed Omo-Agege’s position to recruit Emefiele to contest the presidential election against you.”

The Delta APC leaders said that Omo-Agege told Delta delegates to cast their ballots against Tinubu on the eve of the APC convention because he believed Tinubu had no chance of defeating their ‘anointed’ candidate.

Almost every delegate was informed of Omo-Agege’s position, they claimed, “but as God would have it, the former Lagos governor won the primary convincingly.”

Additionally, the Delta APC leaders claimed that Omo-Agege backed the opposition Labour Party rather than the APC before the general elections.

“Mr President, we enclose herewith posters and videos of Omo-Agege and Labour Party candidate, Mr Peter Obi, posing ahead of the election to the fact that he and his group never worked for you. We cannot continue this way in Delta. We, therefore, call on you to ask Omo-Agege to free the state APC of his stranglehold so it can breathe freely.”

Morka, the national publicity secretary for the APC, however, called the accusations against Omo-Agege baseless.

 “I am sure you that’s not the real Delta APC. Those guys are Cairo Ojougboh-sponsored organisation,” he said.