01/24/2026
OMO - AGEGE PLAYING GOD GOING BY HIS SPEECH AT THE RECENT APC STAKEHOLDERS MEETING AT ASABA
The recent APC stakeholders’ meeting at the Government House Asaba was expected to serve as a platform for strategic rebuilding in preparation for the 2027 general elections . Unfortunately, the entry and speech of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege as later published in his personal social media handle sent the opposite message one that some political analysts have interpreted as arrogant, dismissive, and politically tone-deaf.
DELTA FRESH VISION believes that at a time when the APC in Delta State urgently requires bridge-building, Senator Omo-Agege’s approach appeared to emphasize personal dominance rather than collective responsibility. His manner of arrival, coupled with a speech that projected self-importance and entitlement, failed to acknowledge the prevailing mood within the party: one of reflection, and the need for genuine unity.
Leadership, especially after electoral defeat, demands humility. It requires recognizing that no individual regardless of past positions or influence is bigger than the party. Yet, the optics of Senator Omo-Agege’s conduct conveyed a troubling sense that dissenting voices, alternative views, and even the feelings of aggrieved stakeholders were secondary to personal authority. Of a particular concern was the absence of conciliatory language. Rather than extending olive branches to critical blocs within the party or accepting shared responsibility for past failures, the speech leaned toward self-justification and subtle blame-shifting. Such posture reinforces divisions instead of healing them.
Politics is as much about perception as it is about policy. Even if Senator Omo-Agege intended to project confidence, what many Deltans perceived was arrogance, a quality that alienates allies and hardens opposition. In a party positioning for a clean sweep in Delta State, this is a costly misstep.
The APC does not need displays of individual supremacy; it needs inclusive leadership, empathy, and respect for the collective. If the party is to move forward, its leaders must understand that authority without humility breeds resentment, not loyalty.
Ultimately, the success of the APC in Delta State will depend on whether its leading figures can listen more than they lecture, unite rather than dominate, and lead with modesty instead of muscle. Anything less risks repeating the very mistakes of their past.
In his speech at the APC stakeholders meeting , Senator Ovie Omo Agege made reference to the organic members of the APC which he claimed to have nurtured. He forgot to mention if these organic members who helped him to secure 240,000 votes with an insignificant win in four local government areas are still with him. APC Party men like Godsday Orubebe , Elder Sobotie,Rt. Hon Victor Ochei , O'tega Emerho, Sebastine Okoh, Morrison Olori , Doris Uboh, Stella Okotete, Festus Keyamo, Halims Agoda, Chiedu Ebie, Ben Onwuka, Olisa imegwu , Alex Onwuadiamu , Dennis Okoh and Alex Egwunatum to mention just a few are no longer comfortable working with him because of his arrogance and desire to personalize the Party as a private entity. Worse for Omo Agege is that the Senator representing Delta South Senatorial district in the red chambers, Joel Onowakpo Thomas , who was regarded as one of his most prized supporters is no longer with him.
In contrast , the Governor of Delta state, His Excellency, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori moved with his entire 360,000 voters to APC when he took the decision to leave the PDP in 2025. Since that time Governor Oborevwori has consolidated on the gains of that election because of his unique style of governance which is inclusive, cost saving, humane and entirely devoted to massive infrastructural and human capital development.
When Omo Agege came for the APC Stakeholders meeting he arrived with only 19 people while Governor Sheriff Oborevwori was able to attract the presence of past and present Senators of the party , House of Representatives Members , House of Assembly members , Local Government chairmen and party leaders from the 25 local government areas of the state.
In his usual disrespectful, arrogant and boastful manner, Omo-Agege announced that he did not visit Government House throughout the eight years of Dr Ifeanyi Okowa's administration. What point was he trying to make? That he does not respect party leaders?
In the video , which has now gone viral he openly displayed arrogance and unforgiving spirit when he shunned Elder Omeni Sobotie, the state Chairman of APC even when the Governor entreated him to shake hands with him.
For the benefit of hindsight we must recall that 2023 was not the first time Omo-Agege contested for governorship in Delta State. In 2011 he contested for governorship under the ACN and scored a paltry 15, 526 votes which represented his worth together with the 19 persons he came with to the APC stakeholders meeting . But the true personal electoral worth of Ovie Omo Agege is the 4000 votes he scored in the January 2011 Governorship election which he ran principally with the then Governor Dr, Emmanuel Uduaghan and Great Ogboru
So what is giving Senator Omo-Agege the assurance that he has huge political followership? Is he not living under illusory shadows of the past?
The DELTA FRESH VISION therefore calls on Senator Omo-Agege to step down from his imagined high horse and confront the realities on ground. His claim of so-called “organic members” exists only in theory, not in fact.
Through the strength of his performance over the past three years into his administration, His Excellency the Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has successfully united and galvanized the APC into a cohesive and formidable force. It would be in Senator Omo-Agege’s best interest to sincerely align with this administration, rather than peddle misleading insinuations about phantom followership allegedly waiting to be absorbed. The political reality is clear, the APC in Delta State is already firmly consolidated under the leadership and vision of His Excellency, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori. Finally , Ovie Omo Agege should note the biblical injunction which clearly states that no man should equate himself with God who is our supreme maker.
For: DELTA FRESH VISION
Wilberforce Arinze
Ag Chairman
Sunny Omamadia
Secretary
Grace Akaighe
PRO
