I AM NOT RUNNING FOR ANY ELECTION - OBUH

Anthony Obuh

Mr. Tony Obuh, Chairman, Delta State Pension Board, has disclosed that he is not running for any elective position.

This assertion was made at his Agbor residence on Saturday where he played host to select party leaders.

Obuh said; "I have consistently said that I am not running for any election. It is this absence of any encumbrance that emboldened me to appeal to Hon Collins Bello to call for a leadership meeting in my house. We need to talk to ourselves especially now that the primaries are coming fast. We must not go to the main elections with bruises. We can avoid this if we realise that party primary is an in-house affair that must not generate perennial acrimony."

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Homosexual Escapes Lynching In Onitsha

Homosexual

A suspected 28 year old  homosexual, Mr Anthony Chukwuemeka Esimoneze, narrowly  escaped being lynched yesterday at Fegge, Onitsha in Anambra State.

Trouble  was said have started  for the homosexual when he was caught  stark naked in homosexuality with an  unidentified male student who took to his heel when a food vendor went to ease herself at a hiding corner,in a motor mechanic workshop.

The food vendor was said to have seen  them in the act and alerted the neighbours and passers-by who came and arrested Esimoneze.

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Explore Delta Chairman, Okonma Joins PDP

Comr. Okonma receiving his party card

ASABA- The chairman of Explore Delta, Comrade John Paul Okonma has formally joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Comrade Okonma, at his Ward 8, Ibuzor in Oshimili North Council Area of Delta State on Friday formalized his membership with a call on his associates to join the ruling Party in the state.

Comrade Okonma, speaking after receiving his ‎membership card from the Ward chairman, Mr. Anthony Ogadi, blamed impunity and undemocratic practices as what killed the APC.

Comrade Okonma, said; "I'm irrevocably committed to help actualise the task of building democratic and institutional standards.

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I WAS NEVER INVITED BY EFCC--OBUH

A governorship aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Sir Tony Chuks Obuh, has debunked allegations that he was quizzed by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Abuja over alleged sums of money found in his account.

Obuh said that the allegation was unfounded adding that he was had never been invited by the EFCC to explain any financial transaction.

The front-line governorship aspirants said he had been as free as air pointing out that he was busy planning the formal declaration of his aspiration to be governor in 2015.

Said Obuh: “Ï was not invited by the EFCC either by letter or by phone call, to respond to anything or to account for anything. As you can see, I am working freely on the streets of Nigeria and particularly Delta State. I came from Delta State on Sunday and I participated in the ward congress held last Saturday. I had no invitation, not even a phone call from any organisation or EFCC, to respond to anything. So, I was never arrested, detained or queried by any organisation”.

According to Obuh, the allegations that he had been invited and detained by the EFCC, were ”some of those stories coming from the pit of hell and created by those who have decided to abandon the issues, in terms of political contest, to blackmail or run others down.”

On how he would tackle the issue of graft, the aspirant said there was need for collaboration of all stakeholders, adding however, that he was out for lasting legacies.

” For me as a person, I have been in the civil service for 32 years. I have not heard of any invitation from anybody, both within or from the EFCC to answer or respond to any enquiry as to corrupt practices in all the ministries I have worked. If I have been able to keep a clean bill, rising to the position of Permanent Secretary, a position that I will continue to cherish all the days of my life, I do not think that I will now go out, in the terminal days of my life, to do something that will give me sad memories. At 57, I am closer to where I am going to. What I am looking for now is something that can leave my name as a legacy, both for my family and to the people of the state. I am not going to do anything to soil that image,” he added

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