Niger Delta leaders make case for Delta State
….Task Buhari on NDDC Board
Top leaders of the Niger Delta Region on Wednesday
reached a consensus on how to consolidate the unity and political stability of
the region.
They also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to
appoint Deltans as Chairman and Managing Director of the Niger Delta
Development Commission (NDDC).
‘Mr. President, Nations are built when existing laws
are implemented in its entirety. As you apply the Law and zero on Delta State
for the appointment of the Chairman and Managing Director, we plead with you to
pick men or women who would further your Next Agenda, serve the interest of the
country and the aspirations of the Niger Delta people.’
In a letter to President Buhari, the leaders said
there were no doubts as to whether Delta State would produce the Chairman and
Managing Director of the intervention agency.
“The ranking of the highest producing states is not
in doubt and the state whose turn it is to be appointed the Managing Director
of the next board for which Delta State comes top on all fronts and
consideration knowing that Bayelsa State, Rivers State, and Akwa - Ibom State
have completed their terms in successive ranking order.”
Entitled "Letter establishing the fact on which
state should produce the next Chairman and Managing Director of the Niger Delta
Development Commission (NDDC)", the leaders said the letter was not to
create controversy but to forestall such or any controversy due to the peculiarity
of the circumstance created by the Law or Act.
“Your Excellency, your stance on the Rule of Law and
love for fairness and justice no matter the opinion of a few dissenting voices
necessitated this letter of great importance from the people of Delta State and
the Niger Delta at large. We were never in doubt as to where the pendulum would
swing to, having seen the sincerity of your administration in fixing the
problems inherited by your Government.”
Signed by the Convener, Enlightened Delta Forum, Bestman
Odibo and Publicity Secretary, Christopher Orushani, the leaders urged
President Buhari to consider fairness and justice in constituting the next
board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
‘For the first time, Your Excellency, a peculiar but
interesting and lawful scenario backed by the act establishing the NDDC Board
on the next Chairman of the board which is rotated amongst member states in
alphabetic order as stated in the Act establishing the board and also the
Managing Director (MD) position which is appointed and rotated based on the
"highest" quantum of oil produced amongst the states emanating from
one state. In applying the law that supports quantum as the basis for
succession, Delta State falls next in line after Akwa – Ibom’.
They stressed that the scenario would not start and
end with Delta State as the First beneficiary of this unique position of the
Law but that other states would experience same in future rotation.
“Your Excellency, we are glad to point to you
the convergence of the positions of the Chairman and the Managing Director
to Delta State though the first of its kind but a true reflection of the
position of the Act establishing the Board of the NDDC” the leaders added.
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