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.
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