Delta primaries: Omo-Agege emerges APC Delta Central Senatorial candidate

THE incumbent senator, Chief Ovie Omo Agege has emerged winner of the primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Delta Central senatorial seat primary that held at Udu, Udu in the early hours of Wednesday.

Representative of the National Working Committee (NWC) of APC and Returning  Officer, General Lawrence Onoja (rtd) said Senator Omo-Agege polled 2,360 out of the 2,414  votes cast, emerging as the winner of the election.

His only challenger in the primary, Chief O’tega Emerhor, scored zero while 54 votes were declared invalid.

“As the Returning Officer of the APC Senatorial primaries held at Udu, I hereby declare Senator Ovie Omo-Agege winner,” Onoja said.

He also lauded the peaceful manner of the exercise, which according to him, punctured the perception that elections in Warri and Delta State are hardly peaceful.

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“When I was coming here from Benue, I was told to be very careful that people in Delta are not good, that I may not come back, I may be kidnapped and I said well anyway, my first son is a colonel in the army now, so if you kidnap me, he will match all the soldiers to this place but when I came here, on the contrary, I discovered that Delta people are very kind,” Onoja said.

Meanwhile, Senator Omo-Agege has expressed gratitude to God and to the delegates for reposing their confidence in his ability for quality and robust representation at the Senate.

Omo-Agege, who spoke after the primary, said he was overwhelmed by the confidence his people reposed in him by massively voting for him to go back to represent the Urhobo nation at the Senate.

He attributed his landslide victory to his impressive performance in his first term.

“It was a revalidation for the services I have rendered to the Urhobo nation. The people who voted for me they know me.

“They can trust me that  I have all it takes to go into the contest and win on behalf of the party. I  am very confident, he said.

On the primary which took place on Tuesday in Ughelli where Olorogun Emerhor emerged winner, Omo-Agege said “I know nothing about what happened anywhere else, noting that  “This is the only primaries approved by the national working committee of the party, empaneled by the guidelines.”