The people of Delta State will determine who leads them, argues ALFRED AKACHUKWU
Politics often produces strange spectacles, but few are as intriguing as the recent intervention by former Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, on national television. Appearing on Arise News on Wednesday morning, Omo-Agege ostensibly sought to respond to remarks made a day earlier by Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, who had dismissed him as posing no significant threat in the 2027 political calculations in Delta State.
Yet, rather than directly address the governor’s challenge, Omo-Agege chose a different route. He introduced President Bola Ahmed Tinubu into the conversation by alleging that there had been a presidential directive prescribing a 60:40 sharing formula between the old APC structure and new entrants into the party in Delta State.
According to Omo-Agege, this arrangement was respected elsewhere but allegedly ignored in Delta State, where the camp of Governor Oborevwori supposedly moved to dominate party structures and positions.
The former Deputy Senate President’s intervention raises more questions than it answers. More importantly, it reveals a troubling tendency to substitute political sophistry for political reality.
