The All
Progressives Congress in Ondo State has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to
dissolve the board of Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) following th
e
expiration of its tenure in December.
The state
Publicity Secretary, Mr Abayomi Adesanya, made the call in a statement in Lagos
on Sunday.
The party
said that the tenure of the board had expired in December after a four-year
term.
The party
said it frowned at surreptitious moves by some “powerful persons at the
Presidency” to elongate the tenure of the board beyond the Dec. 8, 2017 term.
“Any
extension of the tenure of the board is unconstitutional and an attempt to give
Cross River and Akwa-Ibom states undue advantage of serving for continuous
period of six years as chairman and managing director, respectively, to the
detriment of other member states.
“For the
fact that it is the turn of Ondo State, as the fifth highest oil producing
state in the country, to produce the next Managing Director of NDDC, President
Muhammadu Buhari must compensate the people of Ondo State for their commitment
to the Party (APC) and the victory of the President in the 2015 presidential
election.
“It is on
record that of all the nine oil producing states in Nigeria, it was only in
Ondo State that President Muhammadu Buhari had an overwhelming victory in the
2015 Presidential election and we have not been so compensated.”
The party,
therefore, called on the President to, as matter of urgency, dissolve the NDDC
board and appoint loyal and committed members of the party as chairman from
Delta State and managing director from Ondo State.
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