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My loyalty to Obi unquestionable – Omo-Agege *Oborevwori knows I’m in charge in Delta
“Who is my candidate in 2027? Of course, it is Peter Obi of the NDC? I’m now a member of the NDC. Have I endorsed Peter Obi for 2027? Of course, I’ve endorsed for the presidency in 2027!”
These were the exact words of Ovie Omo-Agege, former Deputy Senate President, with which he pointed to the direction he is headed in the 2027 presidential election, few days after defecting from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), where he held the position of the second in command in the Senate between 2019 to 2023.
A guest on The Morning Show, a breakfast programme on ARISE NEWS Television, Omo-Agege, who lost his bid for the governorship of Delta State in 2023, said that the music of his support changed immediately he decided to pitch his tent with the new party.
His words: “I’m a member of the NDC now. You see, I’m a political animal – a very loyal political animal. Wherever I am, I assure I display my loyalty. When I was in APC, I gave my all. I supported the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, because he was my party leader. And I gave my all and supported him 100 per cent.
“My loyalty was not 99 per cent. When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came on board, we fought for him. We supported him 100 per cent. My loyalty was total. Likewise, now that I’ve moved to the NDC, you can take it to the bank that my loyalty to the party is 100 per cent.”
Omo-Agege, dismissed the rumour that he also lost his bid to return to the Senate through the NDC, after losing same against Felix Oborevwore, Governor of Delta State in the recent All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries before joining his new party, saying nothing could be farther from the truth.
His words: “If you believe that I lost the primary in NDC, then I have a plot of land to sell to you in the middle of the Atlantic. We have done the primaries and I have won the primaries of the NDC in total, as in all the eight local government areas. I don’t think that there is any dispute about that. You can take it to the bank that I’ve won the primaries.
“We have the results. But we’ve been told by the party not to release the results ourselves, until they do so themselves. At the NDC NEC today, we’re going to be ratifying the results. At the risk of giving you an insider report, there’s no contention whatsoever as to who won the senatorial primaries in Delta Central. I won it. I’m the candidate. But I’d rather wait for the party to make that announcement.
“All the negative information you refer to as the basis of your question are being peddled by Sherif Oborevwori’s e-rats in the social media to run me down. They’re scared of me and they have every reason to be scared because they know going head to head with Sherif. They know what I can do to him.
“I did it before and I can do it again. Now, I’m not running for governor, but I’m glad that yesterday, at the stakeholder’s meeting, we concluded on who our guber candidate would be. And I was so proud with the decision that was made. We’ll be bringing in someone who is eloquent, who is articulate and who understands what it means to be a governor of a state and not one who just clamours for title – I’m governor – I’m governor – without knowing what to do with the office!
The echoes of the drums rolled out to celebrate the rescue of the 44 teachers and students, kidnapped from some schools in Oyo State, after 56 days in the bush, would surely be disrupted abruptly, with the divergent echoes of a fresh abduction, this time coming from Kogi State.
Reports indicate that the gunmen, struck on Tuesday at the Government Secondary School, Odo-Ekina, in Dekina Local Government Area of the state, abducting four students, the school principal and a National Examinations Council (NECO) ad hoc staff member.
Authorities of the Kogi State Police Command, who immediately unleashed their operatives in hot pursuit of the abductors, said the attack occurred at about 5:25 p.m. while the students were writing their NECO examination.
Saliu Oyiza Afusat, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and spokesman of the command, said a combined team of police personnel and other security agencies has launched a search-and-rescue operation following the incident.
Informing that one of the students was actually rescued immediately, she said efforts were ongoing to secure the release of the remaining victims and apprehend the attackers, adding that Naziru Bello Kankarofi, the state Commissioner of Police, alongside the Brigade Commander and the State Security Adviser to the Governor, Commodore Jerry Omodara (Rtd), were already on the way to the scene for an on-the-spot assessment.
Oil prices are expected to go down now with the announcement of Donald Trump, US President that he will no longer impose a 20 percent “safe passage” fee on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The POTUS, hinged his reversal of the decision on the intervention from some Gulf countries, who pleaded with him not to toe the line due to the massive economic impact the decision would make on the region.
Indeed, oil prices had shot up immediately Trump announced the new levy on Monday while declaring the US ‘the guardians of the Hormuz strait,’ a measure which he said was to pay for the cost of guarding the volatile area in order keep supply of oil flowing.
Reports said that Gulf allies of the US worked frantically to get Trump on the phone in time to talk him out of the idea altogether, while a flurry of appeals came from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.
In response, the POTUS, posting on his Truth Social platform, wrote: “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States.”
Trump, who said the investments would be “MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future,” added that the deals would see factories, plants, and equipment pour into the US at “Historic levels.”
The Gulf nations have committed to invest trillions of dollars in the US, though it remains unclear how much of that they will actually spend over the next several years.
Meanwhile, the US continues to bomb Iran in what appears to be a resumption of active conflict between both countries, despite an ongoing roadmap to end the conflict.
Reports say operatives of the Osun State Police Command, and those of the Department of State Services (DSS) had tracking the trail of Adeniyi Adeyemi, controversial Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), for weeks, before he was eventually pulled out of his hole on Tuesday.
However, the duo, were said to have pulled back after failing to track him through his mobile phones, which he had reportedly switched off for about two days, making it difficult to locate him, leaving the stage for the members of the Police Intelligence Response Team (PI-RT) led by Moses Lohor, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).
Lohor, said to have previously served as the Commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of Osun State, and reported to have been involved in high-profile security operations and controversies, after taken over fielded his men to pick up signals from their well-oiled signal networks.
Regarded by many Osun residents as one of the key security officers who contributed significantly to the peace and stability enjoyed in Ilesa and other parts of the state during his tenure, he was said to have relied on his contacts before his transfer out of the state, said to have raised concerns from the public about the security situation he would be leaving behind.
His exit from the state was said to be hinged on an incident in 2024, in which he allegedly shot one Iyanda Alowonle, then Chairman of Osun State Motor Transport System, in the stomach at the police station in the state prompting an order for his arrest by then Inspector General of Police (IGP).
His effort was said to have paid off when he successfully tracked down the controversial PFIPC, boss, who was seen on Tuesday evening, in a shot video on social media undergoing interrogation, and eventually handed him over to Ibrahim Gotan, Commissioner of Police in the state.
The PUNCH quoted one of the sources as saying: “The arrest (of Adeyemi) took place on Tuesday morning by the IRT squad, who immediately moved him to Abuja. After he was arrested, he was taken to Ibadan and from there to Abuja.”
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