Tobi Aworinde
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has dismissed a threat to his second-term aspiration by Chief Otega Emerhor.
The senator, in a statement by his special assistant, Efe Duku, claimed that Emerhor had miscalculated “badly,” adding that his aspiration was “an act of political rascality taken too far.”
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He said, “First, it can only take Emerhor, who worships every anti-Buhari machination, to naively characterise Senator Omo-Agege’s fearless rejection of legislative impunity and tyranny in the Senate and unqualified support for President Muhammadu Buhari as ‘rascality.’
“It can only take the envious Emerhor to talk down to the politically savvy Obarisi, who, as a senatorial candidate in 2015, scored almost 10 times more votes than Emerhor, who was a so-called governorship candidate.
“Only Emerhor with zero political leadership accomplishments can laughably dare to compare himself with the distinguished Senator Omo-Agege – a formidable grass-roots political leader and a one-time commissioner and Secretary to the Government of Delta State.”
Omo-Agege claimed that only Emerhor, who, according to the senator, boastfully projects himself as the de-facto Supreme Financial Controller of the Niger Delta Development Commission, could dare to start a race against the lawmaker “of the famous Agege dynasty” with insults and arrogance as his best offerings.
He added, “Emerhor’s decision to launch unprovoked attacks on his senator on the bogus claim that certain Urhobo elders and leaders purchased APC senate nomination forms for him to join the Senate race may sound musical to his ears but that is a script of cowardice from the playbook of the ‘five fingers of a leprous hand’ infamy of ‘begging’ delusional characters to vie for elective public office.
“Urhobos are too sophisticated for such childish schemes. It should be noted that Emerhor is a man who argues and firmly believes that, even if most qualified, Urhobos should be arbitrarily disqualified from the 2019 governorship race.
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“He has again taken his disrespect for the Urhobo nation to a new level by arbitrarily anointing some NDDC contract-seeking hangers-on as the ‘elders and leaders’ of Urhobo. Unlike Emerhor, Senator Omo-Agege does not believe that to be an Urhobo elder or leader, one must be an unstable mind, liar, deceiver and violator of our traditional values.’”
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