President
Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a former Senate Leader, Victor
Ndoma-Egba, as the new Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission
(NDDC).
This is just as he removed
Mrs Ibim Semenitari as acting Managing Director of the Commission and then
appointed a former Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Nsima Ekere, to take
over.
Semenitari has been the
acting Managing Director of the NDDC since December 21, 2015.
The Senate President is
expected to read the president’s letter on the appointments tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Ndoma-Egba, a
Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who hails from Cross River State, takes over from
Bassey Ewa-Henshaw, also from the State.
He was a member of the
Peoples Democratic Party until September last year when he resigned from the
party following his inability to secure its governorship ticket of the former.
He joined the ruling All
Progressives Congress in November.
Mr. Ewa-Henshaw-led Board was
sacked by the federal government on July 16, 2015 though it went to court to
challenge the action.
The board members argued that
by virtue of sections 2, 3 and 5 of the NDDC Act, they were entitled to four
years unbroken tenure from December 16, 2013 to December 15, 2017.
APC members across the
country are jostling and getting appointed, while our Delta State APC members
are busy snapping pictures with Oyegun, Tinubu, IGP and even the Governor of faraway
Borno State and splashing them on Facebook as great achievements.
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