A Peoples Democratic Party frontline gubernatorial aspirant in Delta State, Sir Tony Chuks Obuh, will on Thursday formally declare his intention to run for the office of governor of Delta State in 2015.
The Director-General of Obuh Project 2015, Chief Fred Majemite, in a Statement in Asaba on Tuesday said the event will afford the aspirant the opportunity to articulate his socio-economic agenda for Deltans.
Majemite disclosed that Obuh’s supporters, political associates and pressure groups will assemble at “The Cenotaph” in Asaba to cheer their frontline governorship aspirant.
Obuh before now had embarked on consultation visits to PDP LGA executives in the three senatorial districts of the state to drum up grassroots support for his political aspiration.
Majemite said the Obuh declaration rally will be remembered for a long time by the good people of Delta State because of the comprehensive preparation already put in place by the Obuh Project 2015 Team in terms of political mobilisation, security and crowd control.
He further disclosed that PDP chieftains and party faithful from the three senatorial districts will join Sir Obuh on stage to articulate the “Road Map” vision document of the aspirant, which has been developed specifically to take Delta State from “an oil-dependent State” to a “highly diversified economy” in line with the present administration’s “Delta Beyond Oil” initiative.
It will be recalled that Obuh, a top class technocrat and Permanent Secretary in the Delta State Civil Service, joined the gubernatorial race recently after retirement.
He served the state for 32 years without blemish.
In 2007, Obuh convened and funded Project Uduaghan International, a political pressure group affiliated to the PDP in Delta State.