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ABUJA SHOW-OF-SHAME: ‘Civil war’ over PIB rages, as oil communities’ factions blow hot
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By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Sam Oyadongha, Jimitota Onoyume, Egufe Yafugborhi and Chioma Onuegbu
OBSERVING two Niger Delta leaders, National Chairman, Host Communities of Nigeria (Producing Oil and Gas), HOSCON, Bishop Mike Emuh, and his Host Communities of Nigeria (Producing Oil and Gas), HOSTCOM, counterpart, Chief Benjamin Style Tamaranebi, exchange blows at the hallowed chamber of the House of Representatives, penultimate Thursday, was unexpected to many people of Niger Delta, but insiders knew it was a disaster waiting to happen.
NDDC: Stakeholders ask Omo-Agege, Amaechi, Akpabio, Oshiomhole to meet, resolve impasse
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SOME stakeholders of Niger Delta, weekend, suggested the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Transport, Rt. Hon Rotimi Amaechi and other top All Progressive Congress, APC, leaders from the oil-rich region should urgently meet to find a way out of the heated controversy over the appointment of an Interim Administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
Some of the top APC leaders, including the former National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshimohole were said to have varying interests in NDDC and their divergences in recent past have not augured well for the region with Akpabio whose ministry superintends the interventionist agency calling the shot.
NDDC: N’Delta monarch attacks Akpabio, accuses him of misleading Buhari
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By Emma Amaize
FORMER National Executive Chairman, Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, HM (Dr.) Charles Ayemi-Botu, aka Lion of the Niger, Tuesday, lashed out at the Minister of Niger Delta Affair, Obong Godswill Akpabio, saying he was bamboozling President Muhammadu Buhari to destroy the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
HM Ayemi-Botu, who is the paramount ruler of Seimbiri Kingdom in Delta State, told Vanguard: ”Exactly a year ago, President Buhari was misled by the Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio to jettison the new board of the NDDC that was screened by Senate and pending inauguration.”