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President Muhammadu Buhari has dissolved the governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC.

The president disbanded the governing board of the commission on Thursday.

Buhari however, left the interim management in place to run the affairs of the commsion pending when a new governing board would be formed.

The Thursday knock has sent many interest groups on the NDDC affair back to the drawing board, as they never anticipated Buhari’s reaction the manner it came.

Despite the President’s fresh directive on reconstitution of the governing board, the Vanguard for Transparent Leadership and Democracy, VATLAD, led by Mr. Emmanuel Igbini insisted on the inauguration of the governing board, headed by former governor of Edo state, Dr. Pius Odubu, which the Senate had screened and confirmed the membership.

However, reading between the lines in the past few weeks, it was evident that Akpabio could not have inaugurated an interim management committee for NDDC without the approval of the President, but many chose to believe otherwise.

Quite a number saw the refusal to inaugurate the governing board especially as the Senate disowned the IMC, as unbecoming of the Presidency.

Two agitating groups, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, and 21st Century Youths of Niger Delta and Agitators with Conscience, which never saw eye to eye in the past, joined forces in the demand for the sacking of IMC.

In fact, 21st Century Youths led about 10 other groups to lay siege, early December, to the NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, calling for inauguration of the Odubu-led governing board and disbanding of IMC. They later gave President Buhari two-week notice to do the needful or face the wrath of Niger Delta agitators. However, when Buhari acted, it was to the disquiet of the agitators and those that did not read his body language.

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He not only approved the reconstitution of the governing board of NDDC, which Senator Akpabio and some privileged few had implied before the formal announcement, he directed that the IMC should remain and supervise the forensic audit ordered by him.

“The Interim Management Team of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) will be in place till the forensic audit is completed. I have given approval for the re-composition and inauguration of the Commission’s Board after the forensic audit is completed. Supervision of the NDDC shall remain under the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs,” he said in a statement.




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