Niger Delta ex-agitators have hailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for ignoring campaigns of calumny sponsored by some enemies of the region to derail the vision of the Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku.
The pioneer Secretary, First Phase Ex-Agitators, Nature Dumale Kieghe, praised President Tinubu for choosing to support Ogbuku’s vision, which he said was in line with the Federal Government’s Renewed Hope Agenda for the region.
Kieghe, who is also the immediate past Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Communication Committee said Ogbuku’s administration initiated and executed the Light-Up Niger Delta Project designed to renew the hope of rural dwellers including aged mothers, fathers and grandparents.
He said Ogbuku was also renewing the hope of the youths in the region through massive youth empowerment programmes including its newly launched Youth Internship Scheme in which 10,000 youths were being paid N50,000 monthly stipends.
Kieghe further observed that under Ogbuku the NDDC had approached the infrastructural needs of the region with dexterity speeding up the completion and inauguration of many life-changing projects such as the Ogbia-Nembe Road, electricity, school, health projects as well skill acquisition centers across the region.
He said the region was also happy that Ogbuku was connecting many displaced communities by various road infrastructures in the spirit of the Renewed Hope Agenda describing the determination of Ogbuku and the board to complete the Bonny Ring Road and bridges as legendary.
He said Ogbuku had also renewed the hope of NDDC workers and other stakeholders of the commission by providing befitting and comfortable accomodations and offices in many member states.
Kieghe said: ” As critical stakeholders, we want to appreciate Mr President for not listening to the enemies of the Niger Delta region, who wanted to stop the vision of our leader and brother, Dr. Sam Ogbuku, the CEO of NDDC.
“Today we have proved those Niger Delta people, who felt that he had no plan for the region wrong. We have proved those who felt that Ogbuku was not capable of delivering the vision of NDDC to the Niger Delta people wrong.