OGELE CLUB

We invite you to join us for the First Annual Hands for Re-Construction Dinner and Fund Raiser to launch Project 2003 and in honor of Mr. Ndutimi Alaibe, Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Niger Delta Development Commission.

Why Attend the Dinner Event?

1. Dinner event will provide the opportunity to network, to pool interests, and share a common vision with a view to developing the Niger Delta and Ijawland.

2. Attendees will meet Mr. Ndutimi Alaibe, an illustrious Ijaw and Niger Delta son. NDDC controls a budget that is greater than the combined budgets of the six states that make up the Niger Delta. It is also an opportunity to discuss the relevance of NDDC in the Niger Delta and Ijawland.

3. The night will avail attendees with first hand information about the political problems in Ijawland. The evening will also involve serious discussions about the plight of the people of the Niger Delta and Ijawland. The night is designed to help strengthen the collective resolve of people of like-mind from the Niger Delta and Ijawland to stop the drift in our land.

4. Learn and share strategies for economic empowerment from the resources and opportunities in the Niger Delta. Through our collective economic empowerment, the struggle for the emancipation of the people of the Niger Delta and Ijawland can be sustained without the need to depend on the patronage of the real enemies of our people.

5. It is a night about transforming the lives of attendees and their dependents in the Niger Delta and Ijawland.

6. Shared values are the glue that holds a community together. The Dinner event will be a night for attendees to re-affirm our shared values.

7. No community can grow if the people do not have developing capacity. The evening will enable participants to exchange ideas on how best to enhance the development capacity of the people of the Niger Delta and Ijawland.

8. Help Raise funds for The Struggle to Bring Positive Change to Governance of Ijawland and the Niger Delta. Funds will be applied to Project 2003 priorities and other ongoing programs of Ogele club. Use your money to support a politically savvy Niger Delta electorate, reliable leadership and to sustain the hopes of our people. It is not about the food. It is about the struggle to be human in the face man's inhumanity to man. It is about taking care of business at the home front before confronting external barriers.

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Project 2003

Project 2003's primary focus is to address leadership accountability problems in Ijaw land with specific emphasis on Bayelsa State. It is expected that individuals of conscience currently involved in the Ijaw campaign for resource control and outside the mainstream of the struggle will appreciate the importance of consolidating the gains of the struggle so far. We simply cannot sit back and watch the sacrifice of our fallen comrades squandered. The project seeks to change the political management culture in Ijaw land.

The project will involve education of the electorate to exercise their right to choose and duty to resist imposed candidates in the forthcoming elections in Nigeria. The project will embark on "issue campaigns", "get out the vote" programs and highlight the records of individuals seeking elective offices in Bayelsa State.