Senatorial Seat: You insulted Itsekiri Nation, Edema attacks Omo-Agege

Immediate past President of National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG, Comrade Edema Collins Oritsetimeyin (ECO) has bare fangs at Delta State All Progressives Congress Governorship Candidate, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, saying the governorship hopeful, insulted the Itsekiri Nation when he purportedly said in a video clip during an interactive session, Monday February 20, that Itsekiris should vote for, “APC Delta South Senatorial Candidate (an Isoko Man) as against the two Itsekiri candidates presently in the race from the PDP and NNPP”, on the argument that the two candidates of Itsekiri extraction,  “are not intelligent, educated and qualified enough.”

Edema, in a statement made available to Fresh Angle International earlier today, Thursday February 23, added: “To add insult to injury, Omo-Agege even went further to state that the APC will take time to find a suitable Itsekiri candidate for the Delta South Senatorial Position after the present Candidate has been delivered by the Itsekiri Nation come February 25, 2023.

“For clarification’s sake, it is the turn of the Itsekiri Nation to get the Delta South Senatorial Position after both the Isoko Nation, and the Ijaw Nation have both served their turn from 1999-present.

“Chief Stella Omu (1999-2003), and Sen. James Manager (2003-date) who is Maternally Isoko.

It is important to note that this is not the first time the APC Gubernatorial candidate is displaying such Archaic disdain and intellectual deformity on issues that has to do with the Itsekiri Nation.

“The evil machinations of the APC Gubernatorial candidate in using his position as DSP to short-change the Itsekiri Nation in citing the Federal Polytechnic Orogun in Delta Central, instead of Federal Polytechnic Koko. His neglect of over 20 Itsekiri aboriginal communities in Delta Central (despite the electorates in these communities voting for him), nomination of Chief Emmanuel Okumagba for the position of NDDC Chairman,  his alleged Sponsorship/support for his kinsmen to continually disparage, distort our history, malign and promote hatred against the Itsekiri Nation and her Monarchy on various social media platforms, and his family alleged Role in the fictitious/illegal twelve ward structure in Warri South Local Government Area, without proper ward delineation just to mention but a few, are his tract records against the Itsekiri Nation.

Comrade Edema Collins Oritsetimeyin

“Surprisingly, the APC Gubernatorial candidate, who in his 8 Years in the Senate, has not been able to question President Muhammadu Buhari over herdsmen/farmers clashes, even in his own domain, the massive looting and corruption in the Subsidy scheme under the APC (which currently puts his constituents in serious suffering by joining long queues to buy PMS at exorbitant price), the astronomical borrowing under the President Buhari led APC Government, etc had the guts to ask if the Member Representing the People of Warri North in the Delta State House of Assembly, can question His Excellency Governor Ifeanyi Okowa over why a university was not situated in Koko. This only shows that Ovie Omo-Agege the APC GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE is suffering from selective amnesia.

“I wish to state that the new romance of Omo-Agege with the Itsekiri Nation through his allies in the APC, is only meant to secure our vote and push the Itsekiri Nation into political oblivion in Delta State.

“I hereby urge all Itsekiri people worldwide, to reject Omo-Agege, and vote for only an Itsekiri candidate in the Delta South Senatorial elections come Saturday February 25, 2023.”

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