Cleric Flays Anenih’s Appointment As Npa Board Chairman

A cleric, Apostle Eugene Ogu has flayed the recent appointment of Chief Tony Anenih as the Chairman, Board of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, describing it as an insult to young intellectuals across the country.

Ogu, who is the founder of Abundant Life Evangel Mission (ALEM), based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital described Anenih as father and an elder statesman who should be seen to be giving pieces of advice.

Speaking at a special sermon to mark the end of 2012, he expressed dismay that such appointment by President Goodluck Jonathan was a sign of failure by the government of the day.

Ogu, who is the former Rivers State Chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, wondered why the Federal Government cannot demonstrate the capacity that it can groom young and sincere people as future leaders.

According to Ogu, “I don’t see the reason for Mr. President to appoint Tony Anenih as Chairman of the NPA Board. Anenih should be a father by now and man who should sit and begin to give advice.

“His (Anenih’s) appointment is an insult to the mentality of the many young Nigerian intellectuals and youths who have the capacity of modern day ways of handling things. Anenih is an elderly man. He should be left to rest.

“They (Government) should show that it has the capacity of bringing up sons and daughters for positions of trust. For them (likes of Anenih) to be there, is a sign of complete failure of Government; that they have no product, they have nobody they have brought up to become leaders.

“At this age, Mr President is still recycling the old people. It shows that the (President) has lost sensitivity to the present day challenges of Nigeria,” Ogu noted.

On Jonathan’s recent remark that he will do better this year, the cleric said, “There is no point for Mr. President to say I will do better in 2013. You don’t say it, you act it. Appointing Anenih as Chairman of NPA does not show that he (Jonathan) will do better.”

Apostle Ogu, therefore warned governments at all level to be careful, pointing out that “If they provoke Nigerian masses to rise up in protest, they (Government) won’t contain the outcome.”

He therefore charged the Jonathan led apex government to tackle the issue of corruption in the country frontally, as well as power, bad roads and the lingering poverty in the land, saying God’s intervention was near.

“Nigerians should watch out because God’s divine intervention is near. People in places of authority will be removed; some will step down, because what God is going to do in 2013 will shock Nigerians,” Ogu said.