Friends Express Faith In Etche’s Vice Chairman-Elect

As the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, releases the result of the April 17th,  2021 Local Government Council poll,  friends and well wishers of the Etche LGA Vice Chairman-elect,  Honourable Gladys Onyekachi Nweke, have continued to express strong faith in her ability to deliver on her mandate.
Addressing the people of Okehi in Etche,  during a special visit with her exco, Chairman,  Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Rivers State branch, Mrs Susan Serekara Nwikh-ana,   urged the good people of Okehi  to always pray and support their own daughter “Gladys”,  on daily basis, so as to represent and make women proud over the task given to her.
The media women leader,  acknowledged the Governor of Rivers State, Chief Barr Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, for finding women worthy and capable in leadership positions. She  adored  the governor for enabling women in the State to serve as  vice chairmen in all local governments in  Rivers State, thereby giving them a voice in the society at large.
She thus, encouraged the elders, women, and youths of Okehi, to  always think of their daughter, observe, advise and correct her as to make a difference in the LGA and State.
While also  congratulating the Vice Chairman-elect, a veteran journalist in the State, Mrs Kate-Sam Mgbor, advised  her  to  remember that the people that elected her,  especially the women she represents,  are looking up to her, a reason for which she  should do well to carry them along.
She  charged her to resist every oppression, irrespective of who the oppressor is. She enjoined her to be  strong, speak out diplomatically, when things are not going well, as well as  play along to some limit and make an impact in Etche’s  political arena, by making her voice to be heard.
Meanwhile, an indegene of Okehi, Hon. Fortune Obi, Secretary of Trade Union Congress and former Pengason PRO, on behalf of the good people of Okehi, had promised that  Hon. Gladys will not be a disappointment at all to both the Etche land and to the state at large, by the Grace of God Almighty.
Hon. Gladys Nweke, on her part, has promised that with God on her side, she will make  Etche men, women and youths proud and will return diginity/sanity to the seat of Etche’s Vice chairmanship.
Gladys Onyekachi Nweke as she is called,  hails from Umuomara, Okehi 2 in  Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Born in  August, 1983 to the family of Late Mr and Mrs Appolus Anunobi  Nweke,  in Umuowan-Ukwu Umuomara in Okehi Etche, she is the third and the last child of her late parents.
A mother of one, Hon. Gladys attended Amato Community Primary School  Okehi 2, Etche, where she obtained her  first school leaving certificate and proceeded to Government Girls Secondary School Egbelubi, Ndashi, Etche, for her Junior School Certificate Examination.
She sat for  her  Senior School Certificate Examination in the year 1998, at  International Secondary School, Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), now Rivers State University (RSU)
A graduate of Mass Communication from Rivers State University Port Harcourt, she also holds a Diploma in Screen Writing from New York Film Academy, Lagos State in 2011.  A member of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Nigeria Union Of Journalists (NUJ), Environmental Safety Professional, Entrepreneurship mentorship and a Journalist
A member, Women in Nigeria and Diaspora (WINADOnline/Offline Foodstuffs Vendor and also a social media connoisseur.
She has worked in many media organisations such as; Eagle News Online Newspaper, Correspondence, Liberty Radio based in Kaduna State, Premium Times online Newspaper, Greenberg Reporters, the Port City news.
Editor in chief of two local tabloids, Editor of News platform Newspaper and Magazine, and Sliver News Online
Honourable Gladys contested as Deputy Governor on the platform of Alliance National Party in 2019 general election in Rivers State
Today, she is the Vice Chairman-elect in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State, sequel to the just concluded Local Government Elections in Rivers State
Worthy of note is the fact that her interests spread as far as creating business ideas in the areas of in media, trainings,  consulting and loan facilitations from government, BOI and other financial institutions
Honourable Gladys’ thought for the youths is to own at least one business. This policy, I believe will help curtail cultism, kidnapping, drug abuse, killings and other social vices.

By: Sylvia ThankGod-Amadi