A national officer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Yekini Nabena, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to sack attendees to the illegality of the current Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), saying its retention amounts to illegality.

Mr. Nabena, a national ex-officio member from Bayelsa State, made his view known in an open letter to the President. Dated 26 February, the letter stated that the tenure of the Board formally ended last December and its continued stay is illegal.

He said the tenures of the NDDC Managing Director/Chief Executive, Mr. Nsima Udo Ekere, and Chairman of the Board, Mr. Victor Ndoma-Egba, had lapsed since last year. Mr. Nabena argued that the terms of their appointment and the NDDC Act explicitly state that they were to complete their respective states' tenure. While Mr. Ndoma-Egba was appointed to complete the tenure of Mr. Bassey Ewa-Henshaw, a fellow Cross River State indigene, Mr. Ekere was chosen to serve out the tenure of Mr. Bassey Dan-Abia, a fellow Akwa Ibom State indigene. The APC national officer said Messrs. Ewa-Henshaw and Dan-Abia were appointed in 2013 for a four-year term that expired last December.

As such, he said the continued stay of the two men in office is a contravention of the law. Mr. Nabena claimed that Bayelsa State, to which the Board Chairmanship position should have reverted, and other member-states of the NDDC are being short-changed with the continuation in office of the two men.
He accused Messrs. Ndoma-Egba and Ekere of manipulating the rules to extend their stay in office.
“The resort to sit-tight, crude propaganda, and manipulation does not only display an arrogant contempt for the law guiding the Commission, but it also offends basic decency and public morality."
“In fact, it amounts to administrative fraud. Any further day the board exists is tantamount to allowing wilful iniquity and illegality to run riot. Moreover, the fact that they have been paying themselves all manner of allowances even after the expiration of their legal tenure is criminal,” said Mr. Nabena.
Mr.Nabena urged the President Buhari to quickly disband the NDDC Board and reconstitute it.
According to him, the NDDC Act provides for a rotation of its leadership among Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Edo, Abia, Imo, and Ondo states and in accordance with the Act, states that produced officers of the dissolved board retained the slots to complete their tenures and maintain equity in the leadership of NDDC.
"Mr. President, I wish to humbly point out that the headship of the NDDC Board ought to revert to my home state of Bayelsa, after Cross River, going by the existing statutory arrangement.
"Besides the injustice to Bayelsa and the other states that are being denied their statutory slots, and the contravention of the law, the issue of the NDDC tenancy is given urgency by certain allegations and suspicions that have come to the fore, which border on the integrity and image of the present administration," stated Mr. Nabena

http://www.akelicious.com/2018/02/apc-national-officer-tells-president.html

What happens to the few months occupied by Madam Ibim Semenitari when Buhari took over?
Definitely, their tenure expires later this year.