Niger Delta Youth Movement (NDYM) in the country intends to create multiple platforms for the training and retraining of youths in the region.
The NDYM president, Joe Jackson, making the pledge in his manifesto, said this would be done through active collaboration with the multinationals in the region.
Jackson who was re-elected for another four years informed the delegates that he would interface with the Presidency, Federal Ministries, Departments and agencies and facets of interventionist programmes for the youths.
He also pledged to set up a special committee that shall liaise with all interventionist agencies of government for the benefit of the youths.
At the national convention which held Sunday night in Owerri, the Imo State capital, comrade Jackson from Akwa-Ibom State polled 57 votes out of 90 votes to defeat Boboye Peretu from Bayelsa State to emerge President-elect of the movement.
For the position of Secretary, Comrade Joshua Osawuyi Ediagbovo polled 51 votes to defeat Comrade Honesty Asemota who polled 39 votes out of 90 votes.
Ten delegates were drawn from each of the nine states of the Niger Delta to participate in the elections.
Announcing the result of the election, Comrade Kingsley Okere, the Chairman of the Electoral Committee who also doubled as the Returning Officer stated that NDYM has once again demonstrated why it is truly the oldest and pacesetting Pan-Niger Delta group through its peaceful and successful conduct of the elections.
Okere said “the heavy security presence at the venue is not the reason this election was hitch-free. It is violence-free due to the integrity of the electoral process which delegates and observers have all adjudged to be the most transparent in the history of youth politics in the region”
Past Leaders and Elders of the Movement who observed the exercise which spilled into the wee hours of Monday, November 25 advised other youth groups to emulate NDYM by ensuring that the process of electing or selecting their leaders are transparent.
Chief Felix Ogbonna, Chief Brookings and Okuku Aniekan Saaforo who spoke on behalf of the Elders Council expressed satisfaction in the electoral process and confidence in the newly-elected executive to build on the gains of the Interim/Electoral committee in repositioning the Movement.
Other executive positions were filled by candidates from the nine states of the region and were returned unopposed for NDYM, an umbrella youth group for all other youth groups in the Niger Delta Region.
