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DELTA APC CRISIS: Emerhor, Omo-Agege at  loggerheads  over Senate Seat Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/delta-apc-crisis-emerhor-omo-agege-at-loggerheads-over-senate-seat/

Factional leaders of the All Progressives Congress Olorogun O’tega Emerhor and Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, yesterday fully resumed their acrimony following the court judgment that again put control of the Delta State chapter of the party into contention. Emerhor … I got two jobs immediately after I graduated The resumption of hostilities followed the Federal High Court judgment that upheld the Chief Cyril Ogodo-led executive as the legitimate executive of the party in the state. The court judgment also affirmed that those aligned with Ogodo were the right candidates that represented the party in all elections, a judgment that could make Emerhor appropriate Omo-Agege’s election as a senator to represent Delta Central in the Ninth Assembly. Emerhor emerged as Delta Central candidate in the Ogodo led executive while Omo-Agege was the candidate in the Prophet Jones Erue led tendency that was supposedly delegitimised by the court judgment. Despite peace moves by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the rift between both factions continued into the 2019 National Assembly elections with Omo-Agege losing out substantially at Evwreni Ward 8 where Emerhor and the Executive Director, Projects of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Sam Adjogbe voted. With a total of 2, 259 votes, Omo-Agege got 526 votes while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Evelyn Oboro scored 1, 646 votes as against President Muhammadu Buhari’s 1, 915 while Alhaji Abubakar Atiku of the PDP got 390 out of a total of 2, 321 valid votes. Though Emerhor through his Mainstream Delta APC pledged to work and support candidates of the party produced from the Erue-led executive, the party performed poorly during the elections winning only two local council areas in the state out of 25 with Omo-Agege, Revd Francis Waive both winning their positions for Delta Central senatorial district and Ughelli North, Ughelli South and Udu constituency respectively.

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