How has the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress fared, one year after taking up the assignment? Adedayo Akinwale asks
After a long period of protracted internal crisis that nearly consumed the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the party was constituted to save the party from itself. The constitution of the caretaker committee was well accepted and received by all the members of the party, who had expressed worry over the protracted leadership crisis that bedevilled the party during the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC).
The ruling party had during the emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held at the Presidential Villa on June 25, 2020 dissolved the Oshiomhole-led NWC following a protracted leadership crisis and set up a committee to manage the affairs of the party in the interim. The 13-member caretaker committee, headed by the Yobe
Godswill-Akpabio
Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that the predictable gimmick of interim management committees and forensic audit reports deployed by Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs to delay inauguration of the Niger Delta Development Commission Board is about to run its course
Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs is used to having his way. As Governor of Akwa Ibom State between 2007 and 2015, things had to be done his way or no way. He ruled when the Naira was relatively strong, compared to what we have today. At the peak of his power in 2013, former Minister of Finance and now the Director General of the World Trade Organisation revealed that revenue allocation to Akwa Ibom State was far in excess of the national budgets of countries like Ghana and Liberia. Akwa Ibom State got about USD1.7 billion (N260 billion) from the Federation Account in 2013.
Boma Ebiakpo, National Chairman of Niger Delta Peoples’ Forum, warns that the Niger Delta region is on the verge of being engulfed in major crises instigated by the refusal of Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs to inaugurate the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission
The recent demand by the Ijaw Youth Council for the inauguration of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to run the agency in line with the NDDC Act is in order and we support it fully.
Other Stakeholders including the South-south governors, traditional rulers and youth groups have been requesting for a Governing Board to be immediately inaugurated for the NDDC in line with the NDDC Act without any further delay.
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