The Delta State government has accused the Deputy Senate President and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ovie Omo-Agege, of sponsoring local government pensioners’ protests against Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the state government.
Reacting to the planned"mother of all protests" by the Concerned Delta State Local Government Contributory Retirees Forum against the governor over what the forum described as"failed N10 billion promises" by the governor as well as death of members for the past eight months, the Commissioner for Information, Charles Aniagwu, in a press briefing on Friday in Asaba, the state capital, alleged that Omo-Agege and the APC were bent on sponsoring protests on the matter to score...
According to Aniagwu, the general public should be wary of the protesters as they were obviously playing the cards of their political sponsors, saying some of the retirees appreciated the effort of the state government in helping to clear the outstanding pension liabilities even as he alleged that a certain women leader of the APC was being used to blackmail the governor and paint him in bad light.
Reacting, in a press statement on behalf of Ovie Omo-Agege, signed by his campaign council director, communications and media strategy, Ima Niboro, said the allegation was baseless, unfounded and deserves no serious attention.
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