A two-time member of the Federal House of Representatives, representing Okpe, Sapele and Uvwie Federal Constituency, Hon. Evelyn Oboro who is also the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial candidate for Delta Central Senatorial District in the forthcoming election has accused Senator Ovie Omo-Agege of plotting to assassinate her.
“Omo-Agege has been intimidating my supporters and boasting that he will arrest me, incapacitate me, he will lock my house down like they did to some members of the National Assembly and arrest my supporters.”
“I applied to the Nigeria Police that I would need security coverage for my campaigns and I was denied, but surprisingly for the past two weeks, the APC candidate has been campaigning with 13 trucks of policemen from one place to another.”
“Am also informed that a special force of policemen numbering 170 will be drafted to Delta Central district during the elections to intimidate my supporters and arrest me if they cannot assassinate me.”
In his responce, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, The Lawmaker, speaking through his director of strategy and communication, Godwin Anaughe, said;
“Hon. Evelyn Oboro was the brain behind the assassination attempt on me sometime in 2018 during a cash grant exercise to female traders at the Uvwie market. It was a fallout of that attempt on my life that the state police command on the instructions of the IGP, provided security for all my political events.”
“The report of that attempted assassination was made to the Nigerian Police and the State Security Service. We pursued the case but had to drop it following the intervention of the Ovie of Uvwie. We are also aware that Oboro’s supporters are stockpiling arms in Uvwie and those information have been passed to the security agencies and we expect the agencies to act.”
“We are therefore not surprised that Oboro has resorted to making these spurious allegations to divert attention of the public from the nefarious acts of her supporters. We call on the police command to get to the root of this panic call by Hon. Evelyn Oboro as we have no reason whatsoever to resort to threats of any sort against Oboro or her supporters. We will win fairly at the polls.”