{"id":146245,"date":"2025-01-14T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege"},"modified":"2025-01-21T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T14:36:33","slug":"big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big lies\u2019, I\u2019m not dumping APC \u2013 Omo-Agege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Senate Deputy President and Delta State APC governorship candidate in the 2023 general election, Ovie Omo-Agege, has refuted the rumours making the rounds that he was planning to dump the APC.<\/p>\n<p>Ovie Omo-Agege, in a statement on Tuesday by his media adviser, Sunny Areh, described the report as baseless, calling it a product of speculative journalism without any truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the weird publication, it was alleged that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Deputy President of the Senate in the 9th Session, is scheming to abandon the All Progressives Congress, APC, to team up with Mallam Nasir el-Rufai to float a phantom new political party. The story is not only shocking but idiotic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving led the APC to its best ever performance in the 2023 general elections in Delta State where the party won two of the three senatorial seats and Senator Ovie Omo-Agege was narrowly cheated from coasting to victory in the Governorship election, associating his name with the political group the former Kaduna State governor is said to be working on is a clear case of fable without any basis whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story is the product of a hatchet job orchestrated by political forces whose only path to relevance is to create a wedge between Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the rumour is a game the perpetrators are already deploying to blackmail him and sabotage the APC.<\/p>\n<p>He said he remains committed to the task of completing the job of rescuing the state from the serial failed administrations in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet it be known that as the leader of APC in Delta State and having taken it through a record showing in the 2023 general elections, I remain irrevocably committed, steadfast, and primed to the task of completing the job of rescuing the state from the serial failed administrations in 2027,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Senate Deputy President and Delta State APC governorship candidate in the 2023 general election, Ovie Omo-Agege, has refuted the rumours making the rounds that he was planning to dump the APC. Ovie Omo-Agege, in a statement on Tuesday by his media adviser, Sunny Areh, described the report as baseless, calling it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":146244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[34,254,2265],"class_list":["post-146245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-omo-agege"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Big lies\u2019, I\u2019m not dumping APC \u2013 Omo-Agege - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Senate Deputy President and Delta State APC governorship candidate in the 2023 general election, Ovie Omo-Agege, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Big lies\u2019, I\u2019m not dumping APC \u2013 Omo-Agege\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Senate Deputy President and Delta State APC governorship candidate in the 2023 general election, Ovie Omo-Agege, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-14T13:32:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-21T14:36:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1736852840.449899.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"\u2018Big lies\u2019, I\u2019m not dumping APC \u2013 Omo-Agege\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-14T13:32:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-21T14:36:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege\"},\"wordCount\":327,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1736852840.449899.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Omo-Agege\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/big-lies-im-not-dumping-apc-omo-agege\",\"name\":\"\u2018Big lies\u2019, I\u2019m not dumping APC \u2013 Omo-Agege - 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