The Chairman, Governing Board of the Niger Delta Growth Fee, Mr. Chiedu Ebie, has hailed Obi (Prof) Epiphany Azinge, on his emergence because the Asagba of Asaba Delta State.
The NDDC boss additionally urged the brand new Asagba to make use of his wealth of expertise for the event of Asaba beneath his reign.
Ebie’s message got here through a private assertion on August 19, 2024, and was made accessible to journalists in Delta whereas a replica was despatched to PUNCH On-line Tuesday.
He expressed optimism that Azinge’s choice for the throne would deliver good tidings to Asaba which doubles as a kingdom and capital of the Delta State.
The assertion learn, “His Royal Majesty, Obi (Prof) Epiphany Azinge, SAN, OON, is an achieved authorized partitioner who bought to the head of academia pursuit and authorized apply.
“As a authorized luminary, his achievements are each towering and legendary. He’s among the many very well-respected senior legal professionals that many people appeared as much as throughout our youth in authorized apply.
“His authorized treatise and dissertations on modern authorized points served as a formidable studying instrument available for regulation college students and rising legal professionals to attract from his wealth of data and expertise’’.
Ebie additional defined that as a former Delta State Commissioner for Fundamental and Secondary Schooling and later, Secretary to the State Authorities, Obi Azinge, was his lecturer on the College of Regulation, College of Benin, Benin-Metropolis, Edo State.
He careworn that as a lecturer, “Obi Azinge was reputed for being scholarly within the lecture halls, erudite in presentation, and strategic in considering. As Director Normal of the Nigerian Institute of Superior Authorized Research, and later elected member that represented Nigeria and Africa on the Commonwealth Arbitral Tribunal in London, he left a daring public management footprint within the sand of historical past.”
Whereas noting that his ascension to the normal place would profit the state and the nation as an entire, Ebie inspired the Asagba designate, “to deliver his wealth of management expertise accrued over time to motion within the current place because the 14th Asagba of Asaba.”