Delta 2015: Gbagi, others peddling falsehood, says Tony Obuh

The Tony Obuh Campaign Organisation has dismissed the claim by a former Minister of Education, Mr. Kenneth Gbagi, who is a governorship aspirant in Delta State that he (Obuh) is not a card-carrying member of the Peoples Democratic Party, describing it as a misinformation.Obuh, who is seeking the PDP governorship ticket in the state, says it is sad that people, who should know better, are distorting the truth to fester their selfish interests.

Reacting to the claim by Gbagi, who said all aspirants had reached an understanding to come together to resist the planned imposition of Obuh by some forces on the state, Director-General of Obuh’s campaign organisation, Chief Fred Majemite, dismissed the alleged gang-up.

Majemite, in a statement on Monday, explained that his principal had been a card-carrying member of the PDP since 2011 and that Obuh had been active in the affairs of the party.

He appealed to people of the state to ignore what he described as “the falsehood being propagated by Mr Gbagi.”

The statement read in part, “While our principal is being vilified, slandered, blackmailed, libelled and defamed, we are focussed on getting the delegates, who will, by the Grace of God, elect him as the flag-bearer of our great party, the PDP.

“We want to state that it is very strange that those who should know better and who have been relating with Sir Tony Obuh over the years in the political terrain of Delta State and beyond are now saying things that are capable of heating up the polity.

“We state categorically that Sir Tony Obuh has been a card-carrying member of the PDP since 2011 and this has been attested to by our erstwhile Chairman, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi.

“We are also unaware that somebody is being imposed on Deltans as alleged by Kenneth Gbagi and his group of ‘aggrieved’ aspirants. What we know is that all those who have indicated interest to contest the governorship in Delta State are in the field seeking the votes of delegates, even though we can understand why some persons are jittery and therefore resorting to the politics of the past.

“We will advise other contestants to face the issues as we are doing and to stop the politics of character assassination, blackmail, innuendos and slander.