Cairo Ojougboh, a Delta State All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, has claimed that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege lost the state’s governorship race in 2023 because he is an Igbe worshiper.
He further stated that the reality of the APC governorship candidate’s failure is not distant from the fact that he is a citizen of the United States of America.
Sheriff Oborevwori, a Peoples Democratic Party candidate, was proclaimed the victor of the March 18 gubernatorial election.
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Oborevwori received 360,234 votes, beating Senator Ovie Omo-Agege of the APC, who received 240,229 votes, and Ken Pela of the Labour Party, who received 48,047 votes.
Ojougboh, a former Director of Projects on the Niger Delta Development Commission’s interim board, was dismissed from the APC following the elections after being accused of anti-party acts on February 25th and March 18th.
In a previous statement, Ojougboh claimed that the Deputy President of the Senate was responsible for his supposed expulsion from the APC.
On Arise TV’s The Morning Show on Wednesday morning, he expressed his thoughts on why Deltans did not vote for the APC candidate in the state.
“As people know me, I speak the truth and I don’t hide from the truth. If telling the party the truth is anti-party, then it’s unfortunate,” he said.
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“But I know I haven’t committed any form of anti-party. Because it’s not today that myself and leaders of the Council of APC in Delta State have spoken and made our points known that Omo-Agege cannot win the election.
“I refer you to Section 183(1a) of the Constitution of Nigeria which talks about the citizenship of a governorship aspirant…it is very clear. He holds an American passport.
“He is a citizen of the United States of America, and he cannot win an election and told the party. Who’s going to listen to him in court?
“The documents of his citizenship are there. We sat with Senator Adamu Abdullahi and told him why Omo-Agege cannot win the election and why the party cannot be left for OmoAgege.
“We told him number one, Deltans are very sceptical about voting for somebody who belongs to Igbe Society. I have where the Igbe Society met and declared that when Omo-Agege becomes Governor of Delta State, they will worship Igbe in the government house.
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“That they will have a chapter of Igbe in the government house. We went further to tell him that he must carry everybody along for him to win the election in Delta State.
“Everything about Omo-Agege is commercial. They said they were going to worship Igbe in the government house when Omo-Agege becomes governor and Deltans looked at it and said they’d not allow that.”
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