The National Union of Teachers (NUT) in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State on Friday held it’s 8th quadrennial delegates conference and elected new officials to pilot the affairs of the Union for a period of four years.
The election saw the emergence of Okolo Evi , a mathematics and computer science teacher at the Origho Primary School, Emosonye, emerging as chairman.
Evi won with 204 votes to defeat her opponent, Ejezire Goodluck , who polled 136 votes in an open ballot contest.
The election, held at the NUT Secretariat Hall in Oleh, was praised as one of the best and most peaceful and the first in the history of the NUT in Delta state for a woman to emerge as winner.
Other elected officials are Agbagbatu Onutomaha, deputy chairman; Egbe Anthony, secretary; Idhalama Orevaoghene, treasurer, and Orife Efemena as financial secretary, while the position of publicity secretary went to Osokpor Collins.
Also, Udemude Helen was elected as social secretary and Igrigi Kingsley, as assistant secretary.
The posts of first, second, and third vice chairmen were won by Enua Mike, Uzobo Augustine and Ejeh Ogheneweware, respectively, while Egwero Meriomame and Edo Israel were elected as the first and second examiners of accounts, respectively.
In her post-election speech, Evi expressed gratitude to all the delegates and teachers in the local government for the trust placed in her.
She promised not to let them down and assured that she will build on the legacy of her predecessors, with emphasis on the welfare of teachers that will be topmost in her agenda, saying she would tackle the issues of the non-release of teachers payslips and ensure the removal of the stagnant level 14 ceiling placed on promotion.
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She also promised to involve everyone in the decision-making process in the branch.
Earlier, the state NUT Chairman, Poubeni Dickson, admonished delegates at the conference to be thorough and wise in their choice of candidates to fill the 13 elective positions; urging the leadership of the union at the local government level to keep faith with an earlier directive of the national headquarters in equitable zoning arrangement of offices.
He emphasized that the directive stipulates “ensuring that the 14 contestable positions are equitably shared between primary and secondary schools to give the two sectors of the Union a high sense of belonging in the service of teachers”
The state chairman, who was represented by the 2nd Vice Chairman, Ovhrakpa Ese advised the delegates to exhibit a high sense of maturity and decorum in the course of the election, with a charge to eschew sentiments, ethnic chauvinism, class distinction and caucus considerations and to be objective and unbiased in the choice of leaders to champion their cause till the end of the tenure of the executive.
