Our attention has been drawn to news reports in the Tuesday, August 3, 2021 editions of Thisday and The Vanguard newspapers, among others, wherein Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor claimed to have filed a court action to restrain the President from inaugurating the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), pending the submission of the […]
Our attention has been drawn to news reports in the Tuesday, August 3, 2021 editions of Thisday and The Vanguard newspapers, among others, wherein Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor claimed to have filed a court action to restrain the President from inaugurating the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission , pending the submission of the forensic audit report. This is without question one more instance of Lori-Ogbebor’s meddlesomeness taken too far.
Niger Delta Governors, ethnic nationalities, statesmen and civil society organisations have been calling for the inauguration of the Governing Board in compliance with the NDDC Act and to ensure full representation of the constituent states since 2019, with the Honourable Minister of Niger Delta, Chief Godswill Akpabio, finally promising to have the Board in place by the end of July 2021, by which time he said the forensic audit report would have been submitted to Mr President after several...
Her strategy is to throw up inaccurate, unfounded, claims with the aim of distracting the public and institutions.President Muhammadu Buhari has already nominated a Board for the NDDC in October 2019 whose members were vetted by all relevant agencies of the federal government following which they were screened and confirmed by the Nigerian Senate on November 5 2019. They are only now waiting to be inaugurated following the expiration of the July 31st deadline given by Mr.
Rita Lori-Ogbebor is not speaking for our people in the Niger Delta and is merely playing a script being directed by forces who do not wish us well in our region.
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