Urhobo leaders support Buhari on NDDC appointment
The Urhobo ethnic group in Delta has backed President Muhammadu
Buhari’s nomination of Mr. Samuel Adjenakevwe Adjogbe as Executive
Director Project (EDP) on the new board of the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC).
Leaders of the ethnic gave the backing during walk organized by the
Elders and leaders of Urhobo nation led by Olorogun Christopher
Ominimini Obiuwevbi and other Urhobo leaders in Ughelli, Ughelli North
Local Government Area of the state to drum support for Adjogbe.
They described the nominee as an “illustrious Urhobo son and a
technocrat,” adding that the nomination put the right pegs in the right
holes.
Other Urhobo leaders who attended the rally included Olorogun Felix
Ekure, APC chairman in the council and Chairman Hostcom, Urhobo Nation,
Olorogun Comrade Efe Okuvwerie.
They appealed to those opposing ADjogbe’s nomination, particularly their Itsekiri counterparts, to sheathe their swords.
They said he Itsekiri ethnic nationality
has benefitted more in terms of appointments into OMPADEC which
metamorphosed into NDDC and the current NDDC.
Olorogun Ominimini remarked that the Urhobos had never opposed the
appointment of any Itsekiri son or daughter into any position at the
state or national level.
He said, “We urge the Itsekiris to embrace and give support to this
nomination so that both ethnic groups can continue to enjoy the existing
peaceful coexistence amongst them.”
Speaking in the same vein Ekure described Adjogbe as “the right peg
in the right hole because of his wealth of experience and antecedents.”
The Urhobo leaders appealed to their Itsekiri counterparts to accept
the nomination in good faith and support their neighbours in the spirit
of good neighbourliness and patriotism.
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