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Timi Frank Gives FG 14-day ultimatum to rescind appointment of sole administrator for NDDC


...Says Akpabio’s defense insult to Niger Deltans

Political Activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Monday, gave the Federal Government a 14- day ultimatum to rescind its illegal appointment of a Sole Administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) or face legal consequences.

Frank in a statement in Abuja also insisted that the defense put up by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio for appointing his cousin, Effiong Akwa, as the new helmsman of the NDDC, was an insult to the people of Niger Delta Region.

He warned the Federal Government to immediately nominate a substantive board for the NDDC as provided for in its establishment Act or face massive streets protests in the Niger Delta region and lawsuit after the expiration of his ultimatum.

He described Akpabio’s claim that Sole Administrators had overseen the affairs of the intervention agency in the past as untenable saying “illegality 20 years ago remains illegality today and tomorrow.”

The Bayelsa-born political activist insisted that that there is no law that says that a statutory board of the NDDC cannot be in place while Akpabio is carrying out his phony forensic audit at the Commission.

He called for the arrest and prosecution of Akpabio for violating his Oath of Office by working against the interest of the people of Niger Delta and the development of the region.

He called on the Governors of the Niger Delta states, Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, traditional rulers and all federal lawmakers from the zone to speak up in order to rescue the NDDC and stop attempts to destroy it and by extension the hopes and aspirations of Niger Deltans - living and those yet unborn.

“I appeal to all leaders in the Niger Delta to break their silence on this criminal hijack of the NDDC by Akpabio and his collaborators in the Presidency as God will not forgive us if we allow the future of our children to be mortgaged by greedy ambition and illegal scheming at the Commission,” Frank said.

He equally called on the National Assembly, especially the leaders of the opposition caucus - Minority Leader in the Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe and his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndidi Elumelu - to ensure that the 2021 Budget of the NDDC is not approved or handed over to Effiong Akwa for onward delivery to his uncle, Akpabio.

He said that failure to act in the public’s interest on this issue would make the National Assembly an accomplice in the ongoing anti-Niger Delta arrangement to illegally divert the resources of the NDDC by one family.

“Minority Leaders in both chambers must ensure that the budget of the NDDC is not passed except they have chosen to aid and abet a ploy to arrest the development of the region.

“They must use their positions as opposition leaders in the National Assembly to ensure that the people of the Niger Delta derive maximum benefit from the Commission in terms of concrete socio-economic enhancements,” he said.

He said that the hijack of the NDDC by Akpabio portents doom for the Agency and people of the region who have continued to languish in abject poverty occasioned by environmental degradation following decades of oil exploration in the region.

He said: “The NDDC is not a family empire where Akpabio can appoint his cousin as Sole Administrator.

“It is disheartening that the primary objective of setting up the NDDC was abandoned immediately Akpabio took over as Minister and made sure that the agency was removed from the Presidency and placed under his ministerial portfolio.”

He equally vowed to legal action against the leadership of the National Assembly should they proceed to approve the 2021 budget of the Commission under the present illegal management being supervised by a Sole Administrator.

Source: https://ngg.ng/timi-frank-gives-fg-14-day-ultimatum-to-rescind-appointment-of-sole-administrator-for-nddc/

Government will still do what they like

Why this guy always talk on phone like late Osama Biladen

Nawa

Good to challenge illegality.
We thought that high level corruption will be a thing of the past under this Govt but allowing Corrupt people from PDP into the Govt just because they decamped shows that there is no difference between APC and pdpt

Me as a doctor: Oga your wife just born triplet

Man: *Rejoices*

Me: April fool, the pikin die

as who, he should remember this govt does not listen to good counsel

let there be shakings in the creeks if he wants his request to be looked into

Nah eh! No qualms
This is so unsophisticated

ok make we dey watch film after that 14 days
let's see drama

Timid Frank, so because the man is from Akwa Ibom you are fighting, Godd Punish you, shry u guys didnt like the Ijaw man, jus calm down and watch us do wonders.
Stop throwing spit all over the place

They should just allow every state under the NDDC umbrella to have its own board just like we have DESOPADEC , ISOPADEC, OSOPADEC etc. I think with that, these whole drama and it episodes will end.

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Porsin dey talk dis one too dey talk! His only Credential is, Former Deputy Publicity Secretary of APC. No stated Place of Work, No stated Source of Income! Butterfly dey call imsef Bird. (Talk nonsense this afternoon and receive a Visitation from wicked spirits by midnight. Aswear!)

Who's this Timi Frank that mods believe anything he says deserves to make FP

Some People will still blame Buhari.

Inconsequential slowpoke far away in Dubai

True born Niger Delta son.

The jazz that Akpabio is using on Buhari is very strong.

God please provide Canadian visa for me.

Nigeria is a failed state, never to rise again. Even the youths despite being majority by population are unable to speak with one voice.

When Buhari leaves office, he will say he did forensic audit.

14 days ultimatum or what? Not like he can sue FG.

This pig is saying Effiong akwa is Akpabio’s cousin??
Lol
Mumu

Akpabio has to take instructions from the fulanis so as to keep his position for now and future. The best person to take the position is his cousin so that his principals will have maximun loots from two slaves. Shameless southern slave leaders.

Kudos to Senator (Dr.) Godswill Obot Akpabio for removing Akwa Ibomites from the categories of gatemen, house helps and messengers, we now control major stakes in the national / political stages to give wailers more platform to wail. Una been think say Israelites no go free? Una never start to cry.

NtoAkwaIbom:
Timid Frank, so because the man is from Akwa Ibom you are fighting, Godd Punish you, shry u guys didnt like the Ijaw man, jus calm down and watch us do wonders.
Stop throwing spit all over the place

A sole administrator is illegal, short and simple.

Hmm