The Director General of the Delta State Orientation and Communications Bureau, Dr. Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, has stated that former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, will not secure the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship ticket in 2027.
Speaking during a radio program in Asaba, Oghenesivbe noted that the APC is already grooming another candidate for the role.
Oghenesivbe accused Agege of spreading falsehoods against Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, emphasizing that the people of Delta State are impressed by Oborevwori’s achievements, including significant infrastructural development across the state. He criticized Agege’s lack of effective political strategies and described his attacks on the governor as unwarranted and unproductive.
The bureau chief highlighted Oborevwori’s recognition as a prudent manager of state resources, noting that he saved over N250 billion in operating costs, paid off N160 billion of inherited debt, and secured $400,000 in funding for public health from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The administration’s accomplishments include the dualization of the Ughelli-Asaba highway, construction of the Beneku mega bridge, and numerous other projects in health, infrastructure, and SME support.
He further dismissed Agege’s claims about federal allocations, accusing him of ignoring the governor’s ongoing efforts to transform Delta State. Oghenesivbe asserted that Agege’s political antics and attacks have diminished his popularity, both within the APC and among the people of Delta.
Dr Oghenesivbe further stated that Senator Agege saw nothing good in all completed and ongoing projects across the state. He decided to sarcastically quote financial figures, failed to review the governor's unprecedented level of infrastructural and socioeconomic development since he assumed office less than two years, adding that the good people of Delta State cannot and will never be cajoled by Senator Agege's falsehood, lies, deceptive tendencies and politics of bitterness.
"On a regular basis, the Oborevwori administration has been empowering thousands of Deltans, youth and women, and also providing funds to boost existing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, SMEs in the state through D-CARES programme and the State Bureau for Wealth and Job Creation, running into billions of Naira.
"Senator Agege decided to look the other way, failed to appreciate governor Oborevwori for his visionary leadership and enviable performance. This is not how to play opposition politics.
"Senator Agege is busy enjoying himself in Abuja and around the world. He had since lost touch with the unprecedented development going on in Delta State, which is why he's blinded to the good governance strides of governor Sheriff Oborevwori.
"Am telling you for free that Senator Agege has been left behind in Delta APC mainstream politics. He will obviously bite his fingers in 2027. Another fellow is being groomed to fly their party governorship ticket.
"The former DSP is loosing it because of his political immaturity, penchant for lies, deception, greed, fractured personality, and battered political image. He won't fly Delta APC governorship flag in 2027.
"One of his laughable political antics is to unnecessarily and falsely accuse the performing governor of Delta State, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori. That in itself is one of the reasons his popularity is fast diminishing as more Deltans continue to disassociate themselves from Agege, as well as in the APC factionalized political families.
"Governor Oborevwori has been adjudged as the most prudent manager of State resources by new media practitioners in Nigeria, he saved over N250 billion from operating cost, paid over N160 billion out of inherited state debt of over N400 billion, executing infrastructural projects across Delta State, including the rapid dualization of Ughelli-Asaba highway, several ongoing roads construction and rehabilitation, rapid construction of Beneku mega bridge, and other projects across all sectors of the state economy, and counting.
"On a regular basis, the Oborevwori administration is empowering thousands of Deltans, youth and women, and also providing funds to boost existing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, SMEs, in the state, running into billions of Naira.
"Governor Oborevwori is focused on the consistent delivery of dividends of democracy to all Deltans, irrespective of political or religious affiliation, and across the three senatorial districts. He will continue to do so as encapsulated in his MORE agenda.
"We have so many good stories to tell in Delta under the pragmatic and visionary leadership of governor Oborevwori. Deltans know what Agege is up to, but 2027 governorship is not for him. Somebody is already positioned with a running mate from Delta North Senatorial District.
"Governor Oborevwori is not ready for 2027 electioneering politics at this time. He's working round the clock to Advance Delta through the instrumentality of the MORE Agenda under full scale implementation.
"At the appropriate time, governor Oborevwori and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will take the centre stage to exhibit political supremacy, and to dislodge the APC effortlessly, because the governor's solid achievements will resonate with the people at the polls in 2027," Oghenesivbe assured.
