The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio to step aside following the unending frauds been exposed in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

"The PDP demands that Senator Akpabio should step aside and submit himself for investigation over these weighty allegations", the party stated in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan on Monday.

The party said the fraud going on in the NDDC is just a tip of the iceberg of the stinking corruption and criminal racketeering that have pervaded the the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, under President Muhammadu Buhari , describing it as "rotten".

According to the PDP, the shocking details of allegation by the former NDDC Managing Director, Joy Nunieh, of massive stealing, manipulation of budget processes, victimization and implication of innocent Nigerians as well as fetish practices by corrupt officials, allegedly spearheaded by the supervising minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio, have further exposed how ministries, agencies and departments (MDAs) are run under the Buhari administration.

The party also said it has observed that the silence and inaction by the Buhari Presidency and the APC since the uncovering of the fraud in the NDDC signpost complicity at the highest levels as well as validate public stance that treasury looting and cover up for corrupt persons are normal official statecraft and manifesto of the APC and Buhari Government.

The statement added that "Nigerians are still in a state of shock over reports of how the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Akpabio, allegedly bullied officials to pillage the Commission’s foreign currency account; how the laid down procedures of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) are allegedly circumvented to siphon unapproved budgets as well as how innocent workers and federal legislators, who are averse to corrupt practices, were victimized, implicated and even harassed with fetish practices.

The allegation by the former NDDC MD that a certain NDDC top notch said he can kill if Senator Akpabio asks him to do so, shows the level of recklessness and the victimization in MDAs under the APC Rule."

It further stated that "More distressing is that the Buhari Presidency and the APC
had remained silent even when the embattled minister has not provided any concrete defence to the allegations beyond personal attacks on the whistle blower.

Nigerians will recall that our party had in April, alerted of massive looting in the NDDC and called for investigation, which was however not addressed by the government.

Our party had also alerted that the NDDC management has not been able to give cogent explanation to the reported Lassa fever contract fraud through which over N4 billion naira NDDC fund was alleged to have been frittered on hazy procurement deals.

This is in addition to alleged N5.5 billion COVID-19 scandal which trails reports that the NDDC had already spent over N1.045 billion purportedly for supply of kits and palliatives to Nigerians in nine states".

The PDP said it holds that any credible administration like the one the APC
and the Buhari Presidency would want Nigerians to believe as running, would have spoken out and commenced immediate investigation into the matter, if its officials are not complicit.

The party therefore charged President Buhari to speak out on the issue, particularly, given the delicate nature of the Niger Delta, and take steps to investigate and prosecute all those involved in the alleged fraud.

Source: https://naijapoliticshub..com/2020/07/nddc-fraud-step-aside-for-proper.html?m=1

Buhari should resign too and be probed. He has failed himself, his family and country

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Yes the man should step aside.

Oh yes he has to

Not only should he steps aside maybe he should also step forward and backward

Mumu talk from mumu tax collectors party...after you have used your agent with 4 husbands a flirt to lie again him, he won't step down, aside, conner or anywhere, he will remain to continue the forensic audit they have started to fish out all those that at any time stolen from NDDC since year 2009 or so

Austino50:
Mumu talk from mumu tax collectors party...after you have used your agent with 4 husbands a flirt to lie again him, he won't step down, aside, conner or anywhere, he will remain to continue the forensic audit they have started to fish out all those that at any time stolen from NDDC since year 2009 or so

So, because she had 4 husbands now means what she said can't be correct?

Why step aside when he works and does the dirty deals of his Tyrannical boss? When it gets messy, you’ll hear some damage control like “the tyrant ordered his investigation 10 years ago when he was still running for office”

Diz people Demonic party n tax collectors suppose to be extinct by nah after looting diz country dry. Watz d different btw dem n Apc trash

I'm disappointed in Akpabio for being so uncouth and irresponsible. A Shame of a two term governor!

He should borrow a leaf from Amaechi who is silently working and Looting and cleaning his mouth instead of running upandan like a headless chicken disgracing his children.