…Describes Keyamo Lies, Accusations Of Working Against The Party As Mere Cheap Blackmail To Gain Relevance In Grassroot Politics
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Party APC, and one time Member of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. (Chief) Evance Ochuko Ivwurie, has condemned what he described as public insults, cheap blackmail and lies against someone who stood for the growth of the party, development and growth of the nation and Delta State in particular.
Hon. Chief Ivwurie in a message to respond to Keyamo’s alleged attack on the former deputy president of the senate, Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege, he asked;
“You mean after campaigning and spending huge resources daily in anticipation of victory, then Senator Obarisi Omo-Agege, went about every polling unit in Delta State on the first election day telling voters to elect just 2 senators for him but they should not vote for Mr. President?
“And while he was doing so, the Honorable Minister Festus Keyamo stood aloof and helplessly! You mean he worked against Mr. President in Chief James Ibori’s Federal Constituency because some leaders there made a pragmatic decision to join forces with him to deliver victory to the daughter instead of splitting the votes to reward the APGA candidate whom you were supporting with Okowa?
“Who dares to do that with Ibori other than Okowa and his nighttime support in your College of Leaders.”
On the constitutionality of the purported College of Leaders of the APC formed in Delta State hear him; “When you formed your so-called ‘College of Leaders’ as the ultimate decision-making body for the APC in Delta State, the Deputy President of the 9th Senate, Obarisi Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, CFR unequivocally and rightly rejected it on behalf of thousands of concerned leaders, stakeholders and grassroots election machinery of the party as an unconstitutional error. This was generally expected.”
He accused the Aviation and Aerospace Development Minister, Olorogun Festus Keyamo, of not wanting to accept corrections even when the National Working Committee NWC of the APC, rejected the ‘College of Leaders’.
In the message, Hon. Chief Ivwurie further indicted the minister that; “Not one who likes correction, Olorogun Keyamo insisted on the rightness of the arbitrary body but could not point to a specific provision of the APC’s Constitution that it stands on. He disclosed that even the National Working Committee (NWC) objectively stated its rejection of that private contraption of his, but said the minister chose to released his local media attack dogs on the party instead of simply changing course.
While accusing the minister of being the worst betrayal, he said; “For you, having played a pivotal role in removing Senator Oshiomhole as National Chairman in the past, you are qualified to do whatever you like in the name of the party.
“In the midst of all that grandstanding, much later and quite disingenuously, there was an attempt to equate that private pressure group of yours to the statutorily established caucus of the party.”
An action he described in the message as laughable. Going further in the message, Ivwurie questioned the Hon. Minister as follows; “Can any group of party members just wake up to constitute its caucus at any level? But then, having not participated in or won an election in your polling unit, you may not know and you may not be blamed.
“This is said with seriousness because you can’t produce the result of any election conducted by INEC from 1999 till date where your party won in your unit. You are therefore not a serious politician.”
He added, “Everyone has their gift in politics. There are those who operate outside television stations and contest elections with sincere desire to win, and do not joke with respect for their parties’ constitutions. Someday you may understand.
“Yesterday, it was quite laughable to hear you say that even if your private pressure group is not recognized by the constitution, then is it a one-man rule that should be recognized? This level of thinking should be beneath you, he advised.”
Ivwurie also lambasted the minister of getting it all wrong when he said, every party member is a ‘leader’ in his space within the context of the party, but positive influence in this regard increases leadership. He said envy and hate are not substitutes for influence-based leadership, noting that base on this, former DSP, Senator Omo-Agege is a field marshal of the grassroots and you cannot change that with nonsensical and disrespectful lies.
He said, one of such irritating, worn out lies is this suggestion that somehow the Most Distinguished Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, CFR worked against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Hogwash!
Ironically, you are the one who never campaigned for and supported the party to win any election in Delta. You only appeared for photo and television ops on the day Mr. President came to campaign in Warri, and that was all. Yet, you have the temerity to insult the sensibilities of the grassroots of the party in the State that the DSP who campaigned and laboured day and night and was cheated after all, did nothing for the party. Where is your conscience, he queried.
It could be recalled that a faction of the All Progressives Party APC in Delta State, had on Sunday, March 9, 2025, during a welcome back party organized to receive Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru back to the party, did made some statements accusing someone of betraying the party during the last presidential elections, but the name of the individual was not mentioned.