A former member of the House of Representatives, Halims Agoda, has dismissed Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s ambition to contest the 2027 governorship election in Delta State, insisting that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has moved on with Governor Sheriff Oborevwori as leader and sole candidate.
In an interview with journalists, Agoda declared that Omo-Agege and his supporters should realize that his 2027 ambition is dead and buried.
He said no matter how Omo-Agege and his supporters cry foul, the APC in Delta State has moved on with Gov. Oborevwori as its sole candidate for 2027.
The ex-lawmaker, who represented Ethiope Federal Constituency, accused the former deputy Senate president of “living in self-denial” and recycling a “failed project.”
He stated that Omo-Agege’s loss in the 2023 election was a clear rejection by Deltans, adding that “if you are rejected once, you don’t force yourself down people’s throats.
“Delta is not anybody’s inheritance, and he should not see the office of governor as his birthright.”
Agoda stressed that the APC in the state had united behind Gov. Oborevwori following his defection to the party, adding that Vice President Kashim Shettima had already affirmed him as the leader of the APC in the state. “Leadership is not grabbed; it is bestowed. And it has been bestowed on Oborevwori,” he noted.
On Omo-Agege’s claims of grassroots appeal, Agoda dismissed them as “laughable.”
He argued that real grassroots support belonged to Gov. Oborevwori, who, he said, had been embraced across the three senatorial districts.
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“If Omo-Agege truly had grassroots appeal, why did he lose so clearly in 2023 despite boasting of federal might?” he asked.
The former federal lawmaker also accused Omo-Agege of mismanaging campaign funds during the 2023 elections and undermining fellow APC candidates.
“Instead of strengthening the party, those resources were used in ways that sabotaged candidates like me. What kind of leader works against his own party’s candidates?” Agoda queried.
Agoda maintained that the focus of the APC in Delta State should be consolidation, not division.
“Instead of setting fire to his own house because he doesn’t like the curtains, Omo-Agege should rally behind our sitting governor. His insistence on running again is not ambition, it is pride that blinds him to reality.
“Omo-Agege is living in self-denial. His time has passed. Delta APC has moved on, but he is stuck in yesterday’s shadows, clutching at an ambition that Deltans already rejected in 2023.
“His fresh push to contest the 2027 governorship election is not the rebirth of a political vision. It is the recycling of a failed project that is already dead on arrival,” he said.
