APC chieftain writes Buhari over NDDC board

A chieftain of the APC, in Edo State, Washington Osifo, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari over what he described as the prevailing pains and neglect being suffered by the people of the Niger Delta due to the inability of members of the newly constituted board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) led by […]

A chieftain of the APC, in Edo State, Washington Osifo, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari over what he described as the prevailing pains and neglect being suffered by the people of the Niger Delta due to the inability of members of the newly constituted board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) led by Dr Pius Odubu to commence operations.

Osifo, who is one of the members-elect in the Edo State House of Assembly, appealed to the President to look at the issues regarding the constitution of the Interim Management Committee by the Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio and use his office to uphold the constitution by ensuring that the legally constituted board of the NDDC resume duties.

He said the people of the Niger Delta region had been gripped by fear of a possible new round of the state of abandonment and neglect.

The letter reads, “Your Excellency was rightly shocked and angry at the unimaginable level of sleaze and graft taking place in the NDDC and was determined to halt forthwith the further bleeding of the region. However, as they say in common parlance, two wrongs cannot make anyone right.

“Flagrant and glaring mistakes of stupendous dimension such as the constitution of an illegal contraption in the name of Interim Management Committee, in preference for a legally constituted body must not be allowed to undermine the good and noble intentions of Mr. President.”