NEPZA Hails Oni’s Appointment as Board Chairman

By Dipo Olowookere

The appointment of former Ekiti State Governor, Mr Segun Oni, as board Chairman of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has been described as well-deserved.

Managing Director of the agency, Mr Emmanuel Jime, said the appointment showed President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to take NEPZA to the next level.

In his congratulatory message issued on Sunday in Abuja and signed by the Head, NEPZA Corporate Communications, Mr Simon Imobo-Tswam, the Managing Director said the wealth of experience of Mr Oni and his “distinguished members would be of tremendous value to the authority at this material time.”

“Sir, on behalf of the management and staff of Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), I wish to warmly welcome you and heartily congratulate you, Engr. Olusegun Adebayo Oni, on your well-deserved appointment as the new Chairman of the NEPZA Board.

“In the same vein, I also extend my heart-felt felicitations, through you, to the other distinguished and equally deserving members of your team, Mr Kabiru Tafida, Mr Sadiq Gwarzo and Mr Taiwo Okunlola. Your wealth of experience and that of your distinguished members would be of tremendous value to the Authority at this material time.

“By your well-considered appointments, Mr President has further shown, by word and deed, that he is staunchly committed to comprehensively repositioning NEPZA for service-delivery, and taking her to the next level.

“Mr Chairman, sir, with your rich, composite and cosmopolitan experience as a teacher, unionist, journalist engineer, bureaucrat, technocrat, grassroots mobilizer, entrepreneur, sales specialist, international consultant, honorific chieftaincy title-holder (the Asiwaju of Ifaki-Ekiti) and former state governor, I have no doubt that your team and tenure hold great prospects for the Authority.

“I welcome you to NEPZA, and wish you and your illustrious board members the divine wisdom to succeed in this historic national assignment.

“Once again, sirs, congratulations on your well-deserved appointments,” the message read.

Mr Oni, who is the Deputy National Chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), was among the 209 board chairmen and 1258 board members appointed by President Buhari on December 29, 2017.