The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, has been warned not to include any of the fired Executive Directors, or EDs, in the running of the interventionist agency by the Community Development Committees of Oil and Gas Producing Areas of the Niger Delta (CDC).
While applauding President Bola Tinubu for dissolving all boards of institutions and agencies, including that of the NDDC, leaving its Managing Director in place, the group asserted that it was opposed to Ogbuku’s plans to involve some of the directors who had been fired in the agency’s management.
CDC in a statement, yesterday, by its Chairman, Board of Trustees, Joseph Ambadekerimo, charged Ogbuku to take responsibility for all decisions taken in running of the agency in the absence of a substantive board.
It said: “With the magnanimity of President Tinubu, the substantive Managing Director, Ogbuku has been directed by the Secretary to the Federal Government vide a letter to take charge of affairs of the NDDC until another substantive board is appointed. We thank the President for this noble act.
“While we applauded the Federal Government for retaining Ogbuku to take charge, the President must have recognised that the vision of Ogbuku for the region is in tandem with President Tinubu’s vision for the Niger Delta.”