The incumbent senator, Barr. Ovie Omo Agege has been declared winner in the official primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Delta Central senatorial seat that was held at Udu, Udu in the early hours of Wednesday.

While declaring the result, the National Working Committee of APC appointed, Returning Officer, General Lawrence Onoja (rtd) from Benue state said Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege polled a total of 2,360 out of the 2,414 votes cast, emerging as winner of the election. Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, the only challenger scored zero and 54 votes were invalid.

“As the Returning Officer of the APC Senatorial primaries held at Udu, I hereby declare Senator Ovie Omo-Agege winner.”, Onoja said.

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He also lauded the peaceful manner of the exercise which according to him was contrary to the perception that elections in Warri and Delta state are associated with violence.

“When I was coming here from Benue, I was told to be very careful that people in Delta are not good, that I may not come back, I may be kidnapped and I said well anyway, my first son is a colonel in the army now, so if you kidnap me, he will match all the soldiers to this place but when I came here on the contrary, i discovered that Delta people are very kind.”, Onoja said.

All the eight Local Government Areas Electoral officers in Delta Central witnessed the primary in Udu.

An excited Senator Ovie Omo-Agege expressed gratitude to God and to the delegates for reposing the confidence in his ability for quality and robust representation at the senate on behalf of the good people of Delta central senatorial district.

Omo-Agege who spoke with newsmen after the primary election said he is overwhelmed by the confidence his  people repose on him by massively voting for him to go back to represent the Urhobo nation at the senate.

The popular senator attributed his landslide victory over Emerhor to his impressive performance in his first term.

“It was a revalidation for the services I have rendered to the Urhobo nation. The people who voted for me they know me.

“They can trust me that I have all it takes to go into the contest and win onbehalf of the party. I am very confident, he said

Asked about the primary which took place the previous day in Ughelli where Olorogun O’tega Emerhor was alledged to have been elected Omo-Agege said “I know nothing about what happened anywhere else. This is the only primaries approved by the national working committee of the party, empaneled by the guidelines “.  Solomon Igbiaye from Delta State was the returning officer of the parrallel primary in Ughelli.

Omo-Agege pledged to join the Delta  state APC governorship candidate , Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru to deliver Delta State for President Muhammadu Buhari and APC in 2019, sdding that the 2019 presidential election, Buhari will get remarkable votes unlike the 2015 where Delta APC could not get 25% votes for Mr. President.