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Renewed controversy and agitation over the recent appointments into the Board and management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), by President Bola Tinubu, on which state the chief executive of the Commission should come from, is one too many.
Vanguard News NDDC: It’s the turn of Delta to produce MD, Chairman — Coalition On By Festus Ahon, ASABA COALITION of activists and stakeholders of oil-producing states have said that it was the turn of Delta State to produce the next Chairman and Managing Director of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. This was contained in a joint statement issued by leaders of the groups: Comrade Tam Ebiowei, Niger Delta Peace Initiative; ‘General’ Jack Tamuno, Movement for Niger Delta Development; and Ambassador Davies Emunemu, Greater Niger Delta Youth Initiative. The st...
By Godknows Sotonye The piece credited to one Etim Etim and published in one of the mainstream media of Tuesday December 29, 2020, under the headline, ‘NDDC: Let’s Give Akwa A Chance’ in response to the paper’s principled editorial questioning the appointment of Mr Effiong Okon Akwa as sole administrator of the NDDC is replete with lies, half truths and innuendos. It is at best another PR job by a man who clearly identifies himself as a public relations practitioner, the journalist bit a clear design to put a veneer of rationality in his PR treatise for Mr Effiong Akwa and the ministe...
The Niger Delta Peoples’ Forum is shocked at the puerile attempt to turn truth on his head, in an incoherent statement of fallacies credited to the Honourable Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, published in Vanguard newspaper of December 18, 2020, captioned “Akpabio justifies appointment of sole administrator for NDDC.” In unwinding and contradictory statements Akpabio falsely averred that “the appointment of a sole administrator for the NDDC today cannot be regarded as illegality” because according to him, it is based on precedence. Nothing can be further fr...
Appointment of NDDC interim sole administrator is illegal, group tells Akpabio On Kindly Share This Story: The Niger Delta Peoples’ Forum, Saturday faulted the stand of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, where he justified the appointment of a sole administrator for NDDC. In a statement sent to Vanguard, Chief Boma Ebiakpo, National Chairman of the group condemned Akpabio’s position, describing as illegal the appointment of Effiong Akwa as the interim sole administrator of NDDC. The group however, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse the appointment...