By Victor Ahiuma-Young
DELTA State Acting Governor Prince Sam Obi has charged members of the PDP to remain focused and resolute in the collective desire to work for the re-election of the party in the planned re-run election and other future elections on the basis of one man, one vote.
Prince Obi gave the charge yesterday while addressing enlarged PDP stakeholders meeting at Asaba organized by the Delta North Chapter of the Uduaghan 2011 re_run election committee.
The Acting Governor enjoined the party faithfulls to embark on grassroots mobilization to secure landslide victory for the party saying that the success of the party in the election would translate to a better deal for the entire people of the district in terms of more infrastructural development of the area.
He expressed concern over the increasing number of aspirants in the forthcoming primaries and appealed to leaders in the various council areas to convene a meeting with a view to pruning the number in order to reduce crises in the various council areas.
In his remarks, the state Chairman of the PDP, Chief peter Nwaoboshi called on INEC to fix a date for the re_run election saying that the PDP was ready for the electoral context.
Chief Nwaoboshi, said the re_run will provide ample opportunity for the PDP to re establish its supremacy and popularity over all other political parties.
Earlier in his address, the Delta North Coordinator of the re-run election, High Chief Isaac Anwuzia said the meeting was to restractegize on how to improve the electoral fortunes of the PDP in the re-run and other polls.
He challenged the people to re_order their priorities and work for the victory of the PDP insisting that a victory for the PDP would secure the governorship ticket for Delta North in 2015.
Chief Anwuzia announced that a rally was being packaged to galvanize more support for Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan in the billed up to the re_run and 2011 general elections.
Others who spoke including former Deputy Governors, Chief Benjamin Elue, and Evangelist Simeon Eborka, Professor BIC Ijeoma, Chief Chris Agbobu urged the people to go back to the grassroots and mobilize massively for the PDP in the re_run.
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