Charles Aniagwu, the commissioner for information in Delta, said Wednesday that Senator Ovie Omo-Ageges, the APC's nominee for governor and the vice president of the Senate, has little political clout to prevail in the 2023 election.
Aniagwu claimed in an interview that the tremendous failure of the APC at the national level to deliver on the economy, security, and management of the country's diversity was a contributing factor to Omo-problems. Agege's
He added that the APC candidate for governor has no support in the state and that it will take a miracle for him to prevail in the general election in 2023.
Despite the ongoing legal dispute over the party's gubernatorial campaign, he claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was very powerful and well-liked in the state.
He claimed that the party has performed admirably in the state throughout the years, winning elections in all of the senatorial districts.
Aniagwu asserts, "The greatest disadvantage the APC has in Delta is not only that Omo-Agege is not really on the ground, but also primarily because of the APC's very, very inefficient performance at the National level.
“Senator Ovie Omo-Agege is someone i have immense respect for and he knows it because I can actually call him a senior friend because once in a while we interact.
“He has all the rights to contest but he knows that when it comes to Delta, that it will take a miracle for him running in the platform of the APC to be able to win because apart from the fact that Delta is almost synonymous with the PDP, the performance of Governor Okowa in the last seven and half years has dealt a very big blow to the APC.
“And the chances of APC in Delta have been further worsened by the abysmal performance of the APC at the National level especially in the area of the economy, education, security and their inability to manage our diversity.
“In 2019, they had federal might yet we taught them a lesson, a bitter one at that.
“In 2015, Okowa won 21 local government areas out of 25 and in 2019, in spite of their strength with Omo-Agege, Ogboru, Emerhor and all of them put together, Okowa won in 23 local government areas.
“He didn’t just win them in Delta North and Delta South, he went to their stronghold in Delta Central and won in 6 local government areas out of 8, and what that tells you is that the PDP has continued to expand and deepen its roots across the state,” Aniagwu added.
Aniagwu further remarked that the chances of the APC had been further worsened by the very abysmal performance of the party at the national level especially in the area of the economy, education, security and their inability to manage our diversity which today is the greatest challenge in this country.
“People may talk about economy, security, education and devolution of powers, these things are very important but for me the most important thing is the management of our diversity because these other things are symptoms of the lack of management of our diversity.