Group Hails Plan By Senate To Confirm Substantive Board Of NDDC



By Wilson Macaulay

Warri



A group under the auspices of Vanguard for Transparent Leadership and Democracy VATLAD, has lauded the Senate leadership over plans to inuagurate the initially screened board of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC.


According to the Group led by Igbini Odafe Emmanuel, "Our attention has been drawn to Media reports that Senate President Ahmed Lawal-led Senate of Nigeria has insisted on President Buhari inaugurating only the members of the governing Board of NDDC that were duly nominated, and screened and confirmed by the Senate in 2019 in accordance with the provision of section 2(2a) of the NDDC Act 2000, as amended.


Emmanuel however noted that he was  saddened by Media reports that there still exist some Ministers of APC-led Federal Goverment who hail from the Oil Producing Niger Delta Region, who vow to cause alteration or replacement in the membership of this Senate confirmed Governing Board of NDDC.


He described the alleged plot by these Ministers as highly regrettable and counter-productive for APC which they are prominent members of. 


"We never expect such move coming from any patriotic member of APC because doing so has continued to make mockery of APC and its National  Leadership, and portrays President Buhari and APC as enemies of the exploited, devastated, deprived and abandoned people of the Oil Producing Region particularly the South-South Geopolitical Zone which is the major Oil and Gas Producer and core Niger Delta Region, that have suffered unimaginable level of human and environmental calamities as a result of over sixty years of continued Oil Exploration and Exploitation activities in their Region.


" If anything, it is expected

that the Opposition Party in the Region should be the one to create this confusion in order to pit the people against APC.


"It is pertinent to remind Nigerians that during the sixteen years of PDP-led FG, the people of Niger Delta Region never witnessed this sort of rancour and ridicule from among top members of the Party over mere inauguration of Governing Board of NDDC that has been duly screened and confirmed by PDP dominated and led Senate".

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