DELTA 2015: OH MY GOD! TONY OBUH!! TONY OBUH!!! EVERYWHERE

 

In every generation, nature always presents individuals who are barrier breakers, a man who will redirect their fortunes and bring them to greatness. Even when Christ had come and gone the Jews still believe the messiah is yet to come. 

Though many know the advantage our State is bound to benefit from the expertise and exposure of Tony Chucks Obuh, they are aggrieved because he is not a professional politician with one thousand years of politicking. His meteoric rise and its peculiar circumstances come with a burden. This explains the exceptional and unprecedented gang up against him.

Majority rule cannot be the only expression of "supreme power" in a democracy. If so, as Tocqueville noted, the majority would too easily tyrannize the minority. Thus, while it is clear that democracy must guarantee the expression of the popular will through majority rule, it is equally clear that it must guarantee that the majority will not abuse its power to violate the basic and inalienable rights of the minority. For one, a defining characteristic of democracy must be the people's right to change the majority through elections.

This right is the people's "supreme authority." The minority, therefore, must have the right to seek to become the majority and possess all the rights necessary to compete fairly in elections— speech, assembly, association, petition—since otherwise the majority would make itself permanent and become a dictatorship. For the majority, ensuring the minority's rights becomes a matter of self-interest, since it must utilize the same rights when it is in minority to seek to become a majority again. Democracy therefore requires minority rights equally as it does majority rule. Indeed, as democracy is conceived today, the minority's rights must be protected no matter how singular or alienated that minority is from the majority society; otherwise, the majority's rights lose their meaning. The PDP stuck to the ethos of democracy and Delta North senatorial district have the right of way.

As the PDP has declared that power should shift to Delta North senatorial district, we have followed the voice of the people and adopted the senatorial district. This is allowing the internal organic-policy of the party to take its due course.

Some people may ask, why Tony Obuh out the many aspirants from Delta North senatorial district. His show of honesty endears him to all and that is why moral leadership is very strategic because it determines the success or failure in achieving goals. Honesty is the most essential characteristic of a leader and the most easily seen.

Honesty is the basis of every action leaders take. If leaders can’t show others that he can be trusted in word and deed, the leader will have no followers. Honest leadership is regarded highly in any clime aiming to develop at top speed. That is why statistics show that places where corruption index is low, more development takes place. Transparency is an effort to enforce honesty. With transparency, participation in monitoring the entire government will be accommodated so as to minimize the potentialities for dishonesty. The direct consequence of a conduct that is not transparent is political corruption, the abuse of public office for personal gain. Corruption can be expressed as a dishonest act. Tony Obuh has over the span of his career displayed this transparent honesty.

A humble leader does not create class of association; he wines and dines with the low and high with no sense of red lines in class. Every humble leader is a practitioner of servant leadership which is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better governance and ultimately creates a more just and caring world. A servant-leader focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong. While traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise of power by one at the “top of the pyramid", servant leadership is different. The servant-leader shares power puts the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible.

 This is one of the virtues embedded in the life of Tony Obuh that has confirmed him a servant leader and this has made the people to accept him unconditionally. But politics is a game of wits. It’s a battle for the strong, the more prepared and the more grounded. Political opponents are usually naturally intimidated by superior credentials. They play it down, rubbish it, and make it look as if it counts for nothing. It simply justifies why Tony Obuh is lurid for those who believe he has an edge over them in the 2015 race. Considering his qualification, job experience, his virtues and general acceptance of his leadership traits, they resort to maligning his image in order to dwarf his acceptability before the populace. But this ancient gimmick doesn’t appear to work. Instead of diminishing his statue, his fame has expanded impressively, Delta people can attest to this fact.

A journey through history reveals that leaders who emerge in each era are men that define that time; Men who define the thinking, technology, culture, religion, development and every other aspect of that time period. In Delta State there are a lot of politicians. Some of them are successful, the others are not, and there are some who believe it is their birth right to remain in governance as long as they last and will rise against any risen leader to pull him down at all cost. Sadly, today Tony Obuh is a victim of these career politicians’ hunt-down syndromes. Tony Obuh has long surmounted the obstacles and has become the most popular and accepted aspirant, across Delta State and Nigeria at large.

Prudence is not paralysis. It is the strength of character when it leads us to do things in a judicious way. Tony Obuh is a prudent man, whose dignity has made him great through wisdom and integrity. It is his wisdom that earned him a productive career. He has continued to endear himself to the people of Delta State with so much prudent proceedings that he has brought to bear in his day to day life.

Today, Delta people say they are for Obuh, the majority are clamouring for Obuh in 2015. Oh My God! What a wonder you have done that even the mighty are now fully in Team Obuh, those who never wish to hear his name are now fighting to outplay themselves. To God be the glory.