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Delta 2023: Omo-Agege Accused Of Promoting Ethnic Disunity In Warri, Delta

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4 years ago

December 2, 2021

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DSP Ovie Omo-Agege

By Celestine Ukah, Warri

Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ovie Omo-Agege has been accussed of encouraging ethnic disunity among the various ethnic groups in Warri and its environs.

A Warri based lawyer, Chief Robinson Ariyo, Esq., who made this accusation in an electronic tarse he made available to newsmen in Warri on Thursday, said utterances made by the DSP in recent time are capable of igniting violence in the area and Delta State at large.

Ariyo, a Warri palace Chief said Omo-Agege, being a public servant occupying positions that is being paid with tax payers contributions, it is “expected of him and his aide, Otive Igbuzor, to keep their public expression of ethnic bigotry in their closets and not exhibiting such openly as they have recklessly done in the past few days.”

Ariyo described their actions as “terribly bad example and a violent disrespect for public office especially for a team aspiring to power in such a multi ethnic state as Delta in 2023, at a time when the people are in dare need of a viable but certainly not a more terrible alternative.”

The Warri palace Chief who further stated that Delta will not support “conflict generators in 2023 election, added that “ethnic bigots as the group is currently exhibiting cannot be elected as governor in the state.”

He advised all who mean well for the state to shun such group of people clustering around them.

The Warri based legal practitioner therefore called on President Buhari to urgently call the senator representing Delta Central and Deputy Senate President to order in order to avert another ethnic conflict in Warri and its environs as early as possible.

Further expressing concern on recent political happenings in the state, he noted: “For one, we have two educated people; one a lawyer and the other a development practitioner. What more does one ask from exposure than such trainings?,” He questioned.

He continues, “It would therefore be ironical if notwithstanding, such heights of human capacity building, the cancer of ethnic bigotry can yet have the better of us and position us as major sponsors of disunity, possible unrest and ethnic conflict in our own state; while we are paid to do the exact opposite.

“Let us view civilisation for what it is; the act of living peacefully together in a large group! Remember your contribution when the soup you are cooking now is done and ready for consumption. I will remind you if you forget.

“The consequence of radicalization is what we see today in Bokoharam; easy to begin but difficult to manage. May the consequence of any unrest we nurture and sustain hit us first before any other person, amen,” He stated.

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The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has unveiled names of members of its primary election committees for the 2026 Federal Capital Territory, FCT, chairmanship polls.

This was contained in a statement on its official X handle on Wednesday.

The committees, appointed for the six area councils, are made up of chairmen, secretaries and members.

The statement said that an inauguration ceremony for the appointed chairmen and secretaries took place on June 25 at the APC national secretariat in Wuse 2, Abuja.

“For Gwagwalada area council, the committee will be chaired by Hon Shafi’u Duwan, with Hon Yahaya Shehu Maradun as secretary,” the statement read.

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