The Ilaje Leadership Forum saddled with responsibilities of security of lives and properties, and agitating for the needs of its people, has given a fourteen-day ultimatum for General Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate the substantive board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) or witness shutdown of all NDDC activities and properties in Ondo State.
This is contained in a statement jointly signed by the Chairman, Ilaje Leadership Forum, Mr. Rawa Felix, Chairman, Niger Delta Youth Movement Prince Akinfemi Omojuwa, and Prince Emorioloye Owolemi, Publicity Secretary Ilaje Leadership Forum.
According to the statement, the group has observed with keen interest the circumstances encompassing the constitution of the NDDC board for close to eight years of Mr. Buhari Administration. We would have proceeded to dungeon observing, but for the affection of our region and the country.
The statement unedited; "We have tinkered and observed with keen interest the circumstances encompassing the constitution of the NDDC board for close to eight years of Mr. Buhari Administration. We would have proceeded to dungeon observing, but for the affection of our region and the country."
"The continuous running of NDDC by a solitary administrator at the instance of the Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Akpabio directly or indirectly at the eyes of President Muhammadu Buhari, is purely junta, undemocratic and anti-development, hence rejected by the people of the region.
"The people of the region are indisposed to a one-man show in a commission that is supposed to take care of the developmental needs of nine states, namely, Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and Rivers become the daily bread of Mr. President and his conspirators and still depriving the people that own it with a sense of belonging.
"Recalled that since Mr. Buhari came on board as President of Nigeria in 2015 and reelected in 2019, NDDC Board was constituted only between May 2018 to early 2019, while the Act establishing the Commission provided among other things that it will be dispensed by a Board comprising a Chairman, Managing Director, Executive Directors and Commissioners who will be raddled from the nine states that made up the Niger Delta States for four years.
"However, this provision has been clamorously sabotaged by General Muhamadu Buhari Rtd and his co-travelers in the Presidency. There is no law for either Interim Management Committee or Sole Administration in the Act that establishes NDDC.
Gumption may reference you that the so-referred forensic audit that has been tactically directed by General Buhari Rtd and his famous malabsorption Senator Akpabio to strangulate the commission could be conducted with a substantive board that binds all representatives from the nine states and other parts of the country if the people’s interest was considered."
"The Ilaje Leadership Forum saddled with responsibilities of security of lives and properties, and agitating for the needs of its people, hereby promulgate a fourteen-day ultimatum dated This 14th Day of July till 28th Day of July for General Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate the substantive board of the NDDC or witness shutdown of all NDDC activities and properties in Ondo State.
"Mr. President, members of the National Assembly and security agencies should adhere strictly towards the constitution of the substantive board of the NDDC, within fourteen days, to prevent a total breakdown of law and order that will equally affect crude oil exploration and exploitation activities in the state.
"There will be restriction of movement across the Niger Delta States and all activities of NDDC in the Niger Delta States should be suspended till after MR. Muhammadu Buhari's administration expired as President of Nigeria.
"All concerns stakeholders in the Niger Delta States, Traditional Rulers, members of the public, The Niger Delta Youth Movement (NDYM) Ondo State Chapter, The Mahin Aheri Etikan Youth, The Federation of Ugbo Youth, The Ilaje Patriotic Movement (Gwama), Students Bodies, Other Youth Organizations of Ese-Odo Local Government, and other sister states whose integrity in this agitations had not been compromised with the Presidency in depriving other States are directed by this publication to get prepared to shutdown NDDC activities in everywhere is found, should the federal government failed to inaugurate NDDC Board within 14 days."
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