24/09/2022
Amb. Presley, Comr Alex calls for Ijaw's Unity, Ijaw stand for good governance after winning Udu election.
Alexander Ogori (reporting)
UDU
At the elective meeting of Ijaw Community in Udu (ICU), popularly known as "Izon Bulouwemo Ogbo" held at Ujevwu railway town, Amb. Presley Egina and Comr. Alex Ogori were overtly designated as the Chairman and the Publicity Secretary of the organization respectively. The election was conducted on a fair ground that the Committee Executives contain representatives from all the communities under Udu. In the attendance — Usefurun, Ovwian, Owase, Ujevwu, Orhowhorun, Aladja Ijaws registered their presence.
ICU in furtherance is a protective front and a watchtower for the Ijaws living in Udu.
It is established on the basis of protecting the free, peaceful Ijaw speaking people residing in Udu LGA. As a legally backup body, the aims are streamlined to stand against rash governmental policies toward the law abiding Ijaw people, and work hand-to-hand with government whose policies tolerate the Ijaw people living in the region. The body contains Ijaws from Ondo, Edo, Bayelsa, Delta, River State, and more.
The young chairman of the body, Presley Egina AKA "The Niger Delta White Eagle" in a joint appreciative statement with Organisation Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogori thank the decision of the peaceful living people of Ijaws in Udu of chosen them the chairman and Publicity Secretary of ICU.
"I want to thank all that made it to our meeting today even with their busy schedule. It's my joy to be honoured as the chairman of the Ijaws community in Udu. With the best of my knowledge, I promised to be dutiful to pilot the affairs of our union with optimum leadership. I promise to protest, guard, and promote the interest of Ijaws in Udu even though we are in foreign land.
I hereby urge our spirit of unity to be at maximum, our spirit of attending subsequent meeting should never be out of place, so that our aims and objectives of forming the union should be at its best." Amb Presley Egina asserted.
To buttress more in the chairman speech Comr. Alex Ogori added:
" In addition to our energetic chairman's words, I want to thank ICU for chosen me as their Publicity Secretary. I will try my best to meet up and satisfy the interest of the more than 5,000 Ijaw people living in Udu LGA. After the ending of our meeting today, we the executives will converge and draft out plans to take census of all our brothers and sisters living in Udu, as a way to ascertain our population here.
The responsibility given to us is a big one and easy one if everyone of us becomes our brothers keeper in wherever location we found ourselves. It's also my appeal that, we the Ijaws should remain like Romans while in Rome. I know many of us registered our PVCs here, and votes here. We shouldn't sigh away from the politics in this region as far as we boost the economic and production quotient of this region. We've the right to support any party and any candidate of our choice with clear conscience.
It's also my appeal that if we should support any candidates to work with, it should be someone that'll tolerate our interest. Good news are coming. Many candidates are coming to seek for our supports as non-indigene group in Udu LGA.
I'm pleased to serve you all as the Publicity Secretary of this purposeful organization."
