Protest Against NDDC Management Ill-motivated, Says Ex-Militant Leader

A former militant chief, Osaanya B. Osaanya, has expressed concern that the continuing antagonism orchestrated by some faceless people in opposition to the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Growth Fee (NDDC), Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, has the potential of derailing the event plans of the federal authorities’s interventionist company for the South-South area.

Urging these participating in ethno-political sentiments by prompting a core Ijaw agenda to sheathe their swords and embrace peace for the Ogbuku-led NDDC to successfully implement the core mandate of holistic growth of the area, the previous agitator warned in opposition to escalation ought to the perpetrators proceed of their sponsored blackmail.

Osaanya, a outstanding youth chief within the Niger Delta, identified that the promoters of the core Ijaw agenda, particularly in Bayelsa State, weren’t completely satisfied that Ogbuku, whom they described as not being a core Ijaw from Ogbia LGA, was named by President Bola Tinubu to handle the fee.

He famous that the anger of such enemies of Bayelsa and the Niger Delta stemmed from the truth that Ogbuku was passionately delivering Mr. President’s Renewed Hope Agenda past expectations.

Osaanya, in an announcement made obtainable to journalists on the weekend, stated the sponsors have been questioning why a person from former President Goodluck Jonathan’s native authorities space of origin could be given such a juicy appointment forward of others from core Ijaw areas.

He stated: “This parochial and primitive mentality has stored Bayelsa redundant by way of growth. The core Ijaw promoters have been pushing the evil and anti-social agenda that some individuals born in sure native authorities areas are the actual Ijaw whereas others in several native authorities areas in the identical state are much less Ijaw.

“The promoters of the so-called core Ijaw wish to dominate and lord it over others they contemplate non-core Ijaw from the identical state. This backward considering is what they introduced into NDDC, and that’s the reason they’re sponsoring campaigns of calumny to drag down the Managing Director of the fee, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku.

“They’re even angrier that Dr. Ogbuku has received the admiration of the President via his efficiency.”

He, subsequently, appealed to these behind such indecent anti-Niger Delta growth agenda, to have a rethink, stressing that any try and truncate the present management of the NDDC would have far-reaching adverse implementations for the area.

In line with him, Ogbuku and the present board have repositioned the NDDC, making it an all-inclusive interventionist company with its distinctive stakeholder engagements.

“Ogbuku’s management has reawakened the useless beliefs and belief within the fee by the individuals of the area, particularly with severe consideration paid to infrastructural growth, empowerment and human capital growth.

“Youths, males, ladies, conventional rulers, and all stakeholders, aside from just a few enemies of the area, are completely satisfied that for the primary time, the present management of the fee was capable of full many deserted landmark initiatives and initiated and accomplished new ones inside a brief interval.

“Let the evil core Ijaw promoters in Bayelsa and others who contemplate Ogbuku a risk to their governorship ambitions in Bayelsa depart the NDDC boss alone to concentrate on his job.

“Virtually all of the stakeholders within the area are pleased with Ogbuku, and President Tinubu can be completely satisfied along with his efficiency within the area.

“The pursuits of some grasping and self-centered people can not override public curiosity and the overall well-being of the Niger Delta,” he acknowledged.