Youths United for Niger Delta(YUND) has appealed to Mr. Peter Okocha to join the Delta state 2015 governorship race to bring in his wealth of experience as a successful investor to the public sector
Speaking at a press conference in Asaba at the weekend, the group’s National President, Mr. Efe Johnson said Mr. Okocha’s passion for service to humanity must be deployed to serve the people of Delta state from 2015.
According to him, “Delta State deserves not just policies and programmes to foster inter-ethnic integration as this has been long achieved in the 60s and 70s, but justice in the allocation and distribution of political goods, gains, benefits because injustice and inequalities create and nurture hostilities.
Mr. Efe said the group believe that Delta State now and in the future needed a leader and leadership that acknowledge the value of the people because people matter in every development agenda.”
Mr. Okocha was born in Jos, present day Plateau State. Had his early education in Jos. He moved with his parents to the then Midwest region shortly before the Nigeria civil war and concluded his post primary education at Saint Paul’s College, Ebu.
He worked briefly in Lagos, before proceeding to the United States of America for the golden fleece. He bagged a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, M.Sc in international Relations and an MBA in International Business and Finance. While in the United States, he met and married Mrs. Michelle Okocha who has over the years proved to be a pillar of support in his life and business.
He came back from America in the late seventies, burning with ideas and enthusiasm and could hardly wait to finish his National Youth Service Corp, before he committed what was then an anathema for a graduate, not to talk of one back from America, joining the clearing and forwarding business, hitherto regarded as a field not befitting a graduate.
He is a trail blazer in the maritime and oil, and gas industry. He has been Dubbed as having the magical touch, that turn a hopeless situation around He is a guru and his genius has been recognized by fellow practitioners in the clearing and forwarding business, he was a two term president of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Custom Agent He has in effect brought glamour and respect to the Clearing Agents.
