The Forum of Local Government Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State has expressed excitement over the appointment of Mr. Chiedu Ebie as Board Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by President Bola Tinubu.
Ebie, former Secretary to the Delta State Government, was announced chairman of the commission’s Board last Tuesday.
In a statement by the forum’s Chairman, Hon. Norbert. A. Sochukwudinma after a meeting of the forum, members thanked President Tinubu for finding Ebie worthy to pilot the affairs of the NDDC’s Governing Board.
He said the forum was “particularly happy because the new NDDC Chairman-designate is “not just a technocrat but a grassroots politician who worked assiduously for the victory of our great party in the last general elections as attested by his party leaders and his LGA party chairman, Hon. Hillary Fada Ibude”.
The statement further read: “We the LGA Party Chairmen, on behalf of the party structure in the nine Local Government Areas of Delta North, heartily congratulate one of our very own and finest, Chiedu Ebie Esq, a technocrat, distinguished public servant who had served Delta State Government as Commissioner for Education and Secretary to State Government (SSG) and a grassroots politician who worked assiduously for the victory of our party in the 2023 general elections.
“We cannot thank President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu enough for appointing Chiedu Ebie, a worthy son of Delta North as the Chairman of NDDC.
“We are confident of his competence and the positive impacts his appointment will make on the good people as well as the Niger Delta region.
“It is our prayer that as our President Bola Ahmed Tinubu forms a Government of National Unity, God Almighty will engrace him with wisdom and direct his path as he reposition the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the good of all”.
Other signatories to the statement are: Hon. Matthew Chinye – Aniocha North Chairman; Hon. Ekene Kerry Samuel – Ika North East Chairman; Hon. Hillary Fada Ibude – Ika South Chairman; Chief Kris Oputa – Ndokwa East Chairman; Chief Greg Onah – Ndokwa West Chairman; Hon. Austin Nnabuife (Ojeogbue) – Oshimili North Chairman; Ogbueshi Dada Okolo(Igwe Omenife)- Oshimili South Chairman; and Comrade Churchill Edem – Ukwuani Chairman.
