A social group, Ilaje Unity Forum, has faulted the alleged claim of a former representative of Ondo State on Niger Delta Development Commission Board, Mr. Benson Enikuomehin, that new nominees submitted by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu were not from oil producing communities in the state.
It described Enikuomehin’s claim as spurious and unfounded, insisting that Edema is from Ogogoro, an oil-producing community in Ilaje Local Government Area of the state and “eminently qualified in all ramifications to be the next Managing Director of the Commission.”
The group, therefore, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to as matter of urgency inaugurate the NDDC Board to tackle ongoing natural disasters and other necessary development in the Niger Delta region. “For a lawyer to have exhibited such level of ignorance despite existing court ruling shows that he has totally lost touch with facts on ground.
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