Delta State Oil Producing Area Developmental Commission (DESOPADEC), Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Williams Makinde will on Wednesday April, 24, 2019, deliver the 1st Maris Annual Lecture at the Orchid Hotels, Asaba, Delta State at 12 noon.
According to a press statement signed by Kenneth Olise, chairman and Fidelis Egugbo, Secretary of Maris Trust Council, organisers of the annual lecture and made available to HardReporters correspondent, Makinde will be speaking on the topic, “Managing Post-Election Challenges: Nigeria As Case Study.”
“The 2019 general elections are over and to calm frayed nerves, and engender a peaceful environment ahead of the inauguration of new government on May 29, 2019, it was resolved that Chief Williams Makinde, the Managing Director of DESOPADEC deliver Maris First Annual Lecture.”
The organisers of the event disclosed that notable politicians across the political divides, people from the academic community, members of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA), Nigerian Union of Journalists, (NUJ), the organised private sector, security agencies, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), among others, are expected to attend the lecture which will have the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa as Chief Guest of Honour; a retired top management staff of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Nicholas Onyeogali Chizea as chairman of the occasion and the chairman, Delta State House of Assembly Service Commission, (Mrs) Josephine Ada Kachikwu will serve as mother of the day.
Very Rev. Fr. John Konyeke will be the Spiritual Father of the day at the lecture,” the statement read.
Earlier in a promotional material tagged, “The Gathering,” it was disclosed that the lecture will be a gathering “of all those who contested in the primary elections ahead of the 2019 general elections, all those who emerged as candidates for the last general elections, all those who won in the elections, all those who lost in the elections, a gathering of those who are interested in contesting for elective positions in the future, a gathering of those who are interested in the affairs of Delta State and Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security agencies, and a gathering of those who believe in stable polity.
