Omo-Agege gets Urhobo backing for Deputy Senate President: The Urhobo in Delta Central Senatorial District yesterday President Muhammadu Buhari to support the senator representing district in the National Assembly, Ovie Omo-Agege, for the Deputy Senate President seat in the Ninth Senate.
They said this would avert what they called the repeat of the leadership tussle that rocked the Eighth Senate.
Members and executives of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta Central spoke at the end of a solidarity support meeting for Omo-Agege at Petroleum Training Institute Conference Hall at Effurun, Delta State.
A communique by APC Delta Central Chairman, Olorogun Adelabu Bodjor, said: “The seat (Deputy Senate President) is for the Urhobo nation and Omo-Agege has done much to deserve it.”
A former member of the House of Representatives Halims Agoda said: “On behalf of the entire Urhobo nation, we are asking President Buhari to adopt Omo-Agege as the Deputy Senate President for the Ninth Senate.”