Activist Gives FG 14-day Ultimatum To Reverse Appointment Of NDDC Administrator 

Activist has charged Buhari to appoint NDDC administrator within 14-days.

News Rain Nigeria reports that the Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of all the Progressive Congress (APC), has on Monday issued a 14- day ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari to rescind its appointment on sole administrator of the Nigeria Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Frank who is also known as a Political Activism stressed that failure of President Buhari to appoint NDDC administrator within the 14- day ultimatum will result to legal tussle.

Activist Gives FG 14-day Ultimatum 

Comrade Timi Frank made the disclosure through a statement he personally signed to the development maintaining that the Federal Government needs as matter of urgency to nominate a substantive board for the NDDC as provided for in its establishment Act or face massive street protests in the Niger Delta region and lawsuit after the expiration of his ultimatum.

Frank in a statement insisted that the defense put up by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio for appointing his cousin,  Effiong Akwa, as the new helmsman of the NDDC, was an insult to the people of Niger Delta Region.

Timi stressed that that there is no law that says that a statutory board of the NDDC cannot be in place while Akpabio is carrying out his phony forensic audit at the Commission.

Comrade Timi through the statement called on the Governors of the Niger Delta states, Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, traditional rulers and all federal lawmakers from the zone to speak up in order to rescue NDDC and stop attempts to destroy it and by extension the hopes and aspirations of Niger Deltans – living and those yet unborn.

He said, “I appeal to all leaders in the Niger Delta to break their silence on this criminal hijack of the NDDC by Akpabio and his collaborators in the Presidency as God  will not forgive us if we allow the future of our children to be mortgaged by greedy ambition and illegal scheming at the Commission,”

Frank who also described Akpabio’s claim that Sole Administrators had overseen the affairs of the intervention agency in the past as untenable saying “illegality 20 years ago remains illegality today and tomorrow.”

He called for the arrest and prosecution of Akpabio for violating his oath of office by working against the interest of the people of Niger Delta and the development of the region.

He also called on the National Assembly, especially the leaders of the opposition caucus – Minority Leader in the Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe and his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndidi Elumelu – to ensure that the 2021 Budget of the NDDC is not approved or handed over to Effiong Akwa for onward delivery to his uncle, Akpabio.

He said that failure to act in the public’s interest on this issue would make the National Assembly an accomplice in the ongoing anti-Niger Delta arrangement to illegally divert the resources of the NDDC by one family.

Timi maintained that a legal action against the leadership of the National Assembly will be taken should the National Assembly proceed to approve the 2021 budget of the Commission under the present illegal management being supervised by a Sole Administrator.

He stated further that It is disheartening that the primary objective of setting up the NDDC was abandoned immediately Akpabio took over as Minister and made sure that the agency was removed from the Presidency and placed under his ministerial portfolio.”

“Minority Leaders in both chambers must ensure that the budget of the NDDC is not passed except they have chosen to aid and abet a ploy to arrest the development of the region. Timi stressed.