http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/asopadec-engendering-development-in-abia/

ONE of the resounding landmark achievements and legacy that would be bequeathed by the present administration of Abia State, under Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji, is the establishment of the Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, ASOPADEC, which has become a stronghold of superstructural development in the state.

Abia, one of the states under the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, was the last to establish its commission due to the political intrigues that beclouded the hegemony that strangulated the state between 1999 and 2007.

But the enabling Law No. 9 of 2009 enacted by the Abia State House of Assembly came into force on July 8, 2009 and was assented into by the State Governor Chief T.A. Orji on December 17, 2009, while the pioneer members of the commission were inaugurated in March 2010.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/asopadec-engendering-development-in-abia/