President Bola Tinubu has approved the immediate replacement of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC’s) Ondo State Representative nominee, Mr. Victor Akinjo, with a new Ondo State Representative nominee, Hon. Otito Atikase.
According to a statement issued on Friday by Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), the president has equally approved the immediate replacement of the NDDC’s Cross River State Representative nominee, Mr. Asi Oku Okang, with a new Cross River State Representative, Rt. Hon. Orok Otuk Duke.
Furthermore, the immediate past Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, is reappointed to a second term and will remain acting, pending the Senate’s confirmation of his reappointment.
Tinubu had last week disbanded the board and management of the NDDC led by Lauretta Onochie less than a year after former President Muhammadu Buhari constituted it.
It would be recalled that All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Cross River State, had earlier rejected the appointment of Asu Oku Okang as member of the newly constituted board and management of the Niger Delta Development Commission ( NDDC), stating that he is a diehard member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
A statement issued by the Assistant Publicity Secretary APC, Cross River State, Emmanuel Edem Inyang JP, said it was shocking, annoying, appalling, and politically suicidal to see the name of Mr. Asu okang as a member of NDDC representing the state.
