SENATOR representing Delta Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Ovie Omo-Agege, has described the allegations of Delta Central Senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon Evelyn Oboro, over threats to her life as false and baseless.
The APC incumbent and senatorial candidate for Delta Central stated this in a press release signed by Godwin Anaughe, Director, Communications and Strategy, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege Campaign Organisation and made available to TribuneOnline on Monday in Warri, Delta State.
Hon Oboro, at a press conference on Saturday, at her campaign office in Effururn, Uvwie Local Government Area, had alleged that she had received messages and phone calls from strange numbers regarding the February 16 National Assembly election, which necessitated her raising the alarm of threats to her life and that of her supporters.
Oboro, a current House of Representatives member, also alleged that she had been refused police protection for her campaign tours by the Police Area Command, but her “opponent, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege of the APC has been campaigning around Delta Central with 13 trucks of armed policemen.”
But Omo-Agege, in a swift reaction through Mr Anaughe, said that Oboro was crying wolf where there was none, having realised that imminent defeat awaited her in the February 16th senatorial poll.
The senator added that the police had to provide security for his campaigns in Uvwie because of the assassination attempt made on his life last year when he went to Uvwie to empower market women with cash grants.
The release read in part: “Ordinarily, we wouldn’t dignify the ridiculous allegations with a response, but for the avoidance of doubt, we want to state categorically that the allegations are false, spurious and baseless.
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“First, we are not in the business of killing people. We value human life and as a devout Christian, Senator Omo-Agege will never contemplate nor condone such evil act.
“No such threat was made on behalf of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege by anyone in our campaign or a proxy at any time on Hon Evelyn Oboro.
“We have no reason whatsoever to resort to threats of any sort against Oboro or her supporters. We will win fairly at the polls.
“Secondly, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege does not have any say in the internal workings of the Nigerian Police and as such could not have instigated any redeployment of officers in the force if at all any such exercise has taken place.
“All we expect the police or any security agency to do is to create an enabling environment for all candidates and parties to participate in the elections, and this include but not limited to rooting out those thugs recruited and sponsored by Evelyn Oboroh.
“Not only have these thugs continued to destroy our posters and those of President Muhammadu Buhari and threatening the people not to come out and vote on election day if they are not voting for PDP, they actually made an assassination attempt on the life of Ovie Omo-Agege when one of them was arrested with a loaded gun at our campaign event in Ekpan.
“Senator Omo-Agege personally reported this case of a threat to his life, vandalisation and burning of posters, road dividers and billboards of himself and Mr President and a case has been lodged against her henchman by name Igho Majemite at Ekpan Police Station.
“You recall that sometimes in 2018, while on cash grant to market women in Uvwie, thugs sponsored by Evelyn Oboro attacked the senator. The report of that attempted assassination was made to the Nigerian Police and the State Security Service.
“We pursued the case but had to drop it following the intervention of the Ovie of Uvwie.
“As a consequence of that attack, the Police Command in Delta State on the instructions of the Inspector General of Police decided to provide security for all our political events. This started with CP Zanna Ibrahim and then Muhammad Mustapha and now the current CP Anthony Ogbizi.
“We are also aware that Oboro’s supporters are stockpiling arms in Uvwie and that information have been passed to the security agencies and we expect the agencies to act.
“We are therefore not surprised that Oboro has resorted to making these spurious allegations to divert the attention of the public from the nefarious acts of her supporters.”
Senator Omo-Agege called on the Nigeria Police, Delta Police Command to get to the root of the alleged threats by Hon Oboro in order to clear his name ahead of the election into the National Assembly.
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