NDDC: Emami cautions against ethnicizing appointments

The Ologbotsere of Warri and prominent leader of All Progressives Congress in Delta State, Chief Ayirimi Emami, has cautioned against ethnicizing appointments in the incoming board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, saying the desire to ensure even and rapid development of the Niger Delta States, should be more paramount.     

Chief Emami gave the advice, Friday August 23 in a media chat shortly before departing Nigeria for Lebanon, where he went to represent The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli, for the marriage ceremony of Prince Toritseju Emiko ( son of the transited Warri Monarch) billed for this weekend.

He opined that promotion of ethnicity in the social and conventional media, particularly for the position of NDDC Chairman or Managing Director from Delta State, was unnecessary, “because whosoever is appointed , whether from Itsekiri, Urhobo, Isoko or Ijaw extraction, has the responsibility of not just developing the coastal and upland communities of the Niger Delta, especially Delta State, but work in sync with President Muhammadu Buhari’s next level agenda of taking millions of Nigerians out of poverty”.

The renowned Niger Delta activist, emphazized, “with the uncommon performer, Senator Godswill Akpabio and the vibrant Festus Keyamo appointed Minister and Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs respectively, appointment of a Deltan with proven integrity, into the executive position of NDDC, irrespective of tribe, would complement the development resolve of the federal government, as it relates to the South-South States.”