The forensic audit of the accounts of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari when some Niger Delta leaders visited him at the Presidential Villa recently has left the regions leaders divided. While the move did not go down well with certain interests in the region, others see it as one that is long overdue.
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, for instance, is firmly in support of the move because he believes that the Commission is nothing but a conduit pipe for siphoning funds. As far as he is concerned, there is nothing on the ground to justify the huge sums that have been invested in the Commission over the years. But some members of the National Assembly are opposed to it and are making all the moves they can to frustrate it.

While Sentry will keep readers posted on the issue, what is of utmost concern at the moment is the SMS war that has erupted between the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege. Recall that Akpabio had constituted a three-man interim management committee to manage the affairs of the NDDC. But the National Assembly wondered the essence of a three-man committee when the board of the Commission could be constituted to take over its running.
However, it is one thing to constitute a committee but another thing to inaugurate it.

Unhappy with the composition of the board of the Commission because he had no input in it and was not consulted before it was constituted, Akpabio sent a text message to Omo-Agege to register his displeasure. Rather than placate Akpabio, Omo-Agege responded angrily with another text, pointedly telling Akpabio that the board had come to stay “whether anybody likes it or not,” and now that it has been cleared, it must be allowed to work.

A distraught Akpabio has since dismissed the composition of the board as an exclusive show of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, describing it as an Edo/Delta affair.



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I dont understand

Akpabio is trying to play the ethnic card.. he should know by know he has no political clout to cause an uproar or play a division card.

On the Audit, it should be conducted from its initiation to date... We complain Nigeria cannot be better, when we are the Nigerians in the Nigeria that have the option to make things either good or bad..

While the forensic probe of activities of NDDC from inception till date is overdue, the ongoing power tussle will guarantee little progress and a return to status quo, which favours the people who raped the NDDC over years.

However, In my opinion, the 'noise' by Akpabio that NDDC is Edo/Delta affair is unnecessary politicking. A minister has the ear of the President more than the Board of NDDC. Moreover, what do we say of having Akpabio and Ita Enang both from Akwa Ibom as Minister and presidential SSA on Niger Delta?

Let's get probe under already.

Wonders.
Fingers crossed.