President MuhammaduBuhari has on Tuesday, 28th January 2020 written the Senate, informing it that recomposition of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), would be done immediately after the Interim Management Committee had completed its audit oversight of the interventionist agency. Ahmed Lawan, President of the Senate, read the letter on the resumption of plenary today.
According to PresidentBuhari, he would after the Audit work, present to the Senate the list for the board.
It would be recalled that the Senate had last year, confirmed President MuhammaduBuhari’s nominees for the board of NDDC. The former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Dr Pius Odubu, was confirmed by the Senate as Chairman of the NDDC Board, just as a nominee from Delta State, Chief Bernard Okumagba, was also confirmed as the NDDC Managing Director. The confirmation followed the presentation and consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs by its Chairman, Peter Nwaoboshi, Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Delta North.
Also confirmed were OtobongNdem who is now the Executive Director, Projects and Maxwell Oko as Executive Director, Finance and Administration. The Senate had also confirmed Prophet Jones Erue (Delta), Chief Victor Ekhator (Edo), NwoguNwogu (Abia), Theodore Allison (Bayelsa), Victor Antai (AkwaIbom), Maurice Effiwatt (Cross River), OlugbengaElema (Ondo), Hon. UchegbuChidiebereKyrian (Imo), Aisha MurtalaMuhammed (Kano), ArdoZubairu (Adamawa) and Amb. AbdullahiBage (Nasarawa). Only a nominee from Rivers State, Dr Joy YimebeNunieh was not confirmed by the Senate as she did not appear for screening.
