Dr. Samuel Ogbuku: The Big Push of Niger Delta at 50 Writes Pedrick Eluan
Just as I, many others have wondered why the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria has refused to optimise it’s development potentials in the last decades.
Including the none-utilization of huge resources from our famous intervention agency, the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, since its establishment in year 2000.
So many reasons had been put forward by great authorities, in attempts to provide linkages and its implications on our perpetuity in deficits, squalor, servitude and low self esteemed.
But I have argued that the right leadership would help; scale-up our unending quest in addressing the challenges of underdevelopment in our micro and macro socio-economic units.
By this, I mean the ‘New Testament Leadership’ as a model (The Big Push) for optimisation, efficiency and uncommon transformation of scarce resources to prosperity.
Such that development potentials are better organised or coordinated to achieve a ‘General Equilibrium’: the state in which almost all strategic interests and interactions in our development equation meets or settle.
A lack of (New Testament Leadership) it, which embodies honesty, the fear of God and wisdom, becomes the gap in our attempts to improve our wellbeing or welfare in the region amidst huge resources and abundance.
In the last three years, Niger Delta region has seen a significant push in addressing critical development challenges; owing to a leadership laced with wisdom, honesty in resources allocation and respect for man and God at the NDDC.
It is a renewed hope of our journey as a region to Cannan and we believe that a sustained growth efforts such as it is seen today, shall be a neccessary condition to get to Cannan on time.
At age 50, Chief Samuel Ogbuku’s life and times; now on the saddle as current MD and CEO of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) sparks up National salutations with the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, leading the chart, celebrating the ‘Big Push’ of the Niger Delta Region.
As the vision bearer of the ‘New Testament Leadership’ Ideology, werein he belongs, I stand tall with my shoulders up; to say a big thanks to him, for his resilience.
Just like John D-Baptist, Chief Ogbuku has continued to resist the buoyant taste of Ice-cream, shawama and burger in his leadership style.
Instead, he elects to feast on locusts and horny; refusing to lay on a gold plated bed, but choose the woven mattresses beautifully made at Ayaks City, in Ogbia kingdom.
Alua, Chief. Happy Birthday.
Pedrick Eluan, MNES.
The New Testament Leader.
