N’Delta Varsity Apppoints Shehu Of Borno Pro-chancellor

Governor Seriake joystickson of Bayelsa State has appointed the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Garbai Elkanemi, as the second Pro-Chancellor of the Niger Delta University owned by the state.

He has, therefore, called on Nigerian leaders to protect the cordial relationship between the North and South rather than fan the embers of hatred and acrimony.

The governor, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Edmund Oguru, said this during a ceremony to formalise the appointment on Monday in Abuja.He said one of the reasons that guided the choice of the monarch from the old Borno Empire was to rebuild the existing cordial relationship between the North and the South-South.

He said, “The message we are sending to Nigerians by this action is that we should build bridges across the divide and stop creating walls over each other. What was uppermost in our minds was that the South-South has, over the years, been a great ally of the North.”

The governor said from the early days of Nigeria’s independence till today, the South-South had been the bridge between the North and the South, adding that it was in