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The South-South Emerging Leaders Forum (SELF) has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing Mr Effiong Akwa as the Sole Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Its National Coordinator, Mr. Preye Johnson, said in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday that the president acted in line with the Act setting up the Commission. x
Johnson also commended the Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, for doing the right thing within the purview of the law.
The forum which consists of professionals appealed to those agitating against the appointment to give peace a chance for the development of the region.
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 from the truth.
In the statement as reported by Vanguard, Akpabio stated that “even the first executive director of finance and administration acted as sole administrator of NDDC at various times, we have also had a sole administrator from Rivers State in the person of Semenitari, we have also had one from Cross River State, as well as Mrs. Enyia from Bayelsa while awaiting the confirmation of
Appointment of NDDC interim sole administrator is illegal, group tells Akpabio
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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 and put in place a substantive Board for NDDC as required by the NDDC Act.
NDDC: Group faults ex-militants, Reps minority caucus on sole administrator
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja
The Network Advancement Programme for Poverty and Disaster Risks Reduction, on Wednesday, faulted the position of the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers and Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives on the recent appointment of sole administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission.
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had on Saturday sacked the Kemebradikumo Pondei-led Interim Management Committee of the commission and named the acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Effiong Akwa, as the sole administrator.
The RNDA, however, faulted the appointment of Akwa who it described as a brother to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, saying the appointment would be provocative and could trigger a new round of violence in the creeks.