NDYM SWEARS-IN NATIONAL DEPUTY PRESIDENT

The Niger Delta Youth Movement, NDYM, has sworn in Mr. Godspower Odenema as its National Deputy President. The swearing-in ceremony held at the LawFab Hotel, Osubi near Warri, on Sunday, February 24. The ceremony was witnessed by the leadership and members of the NDYM in the Niger Delta states. Acting on behalf of the group's President, Dr Nelson Elekima who was unavoidably absent, the group's secretary Barr. Cosmas Akuneho, said the action was in compliance with the constitutional provision of the body. Mr. Godspower Odenema was nominated and endorsed by the national executive council of the body during a meeting held in Aba, late last year. Thus the group swore him in as the deputy president of the Movement and gave him powers to act on behalf of the president whenever the president was absent.In his acceptance speech, Mr. Godspower Odenema said the Niger Delta region was in a path of self rediscovery but noted that unfortunately, intra and inter communal conflicts have often frustrated and messed internal cohesion. "These conflicts have tended to scuttle attempts at forming a common front to the problems that faced the region. If the region is to make any progress it must look inward to dismantle every obstacle to its internal cohesion" he said. For him, the NDYM is the only umbrella youth body without military antecedents and pointed out the fact that the body's action in taking the FG to court for failure to release the statutory allocation to NDDC is an ample demonstration of the leadership style of the NDYM that adopt the rule of law and dialogue rather than violence. He promised to do anything possible to discharge his duties creditably.