There appears to be another round of face-off between the president and some G7 governors over the recent nominations for the governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and its Managing Director, by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Nigerian Tribune gathered in Abuja on Thursday that the nominations for the NDDC board and its MD already forwarded to the Senate for consideration is generating furore among the aggrieved governors who are reportedly angry over the issue.
Nigerian Tribune further learnt that some of the governors are angry over the inability of their nominees to make the list.
Sources close to the aggrieved governors confided in the Nigerian Tribune that nominations for the NDDC board did not have the input of Governors Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and Rochas Okorocha of Imo State.
It was gathered that the slot of Rivers State for the position of the Executive Director, Finance and Administration was nominated to the president by the Education Minister, Nyesom Wike, unlike in the past when Amaechi nominated Rivers State representatives for the NDDC board.
On the other hand, it was learnt that pro-Jonathan governors such as Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, Liyel Imoke of Cross Rivers State, Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State and Theodore Orji of Abia State have their nominees on the list of those expected to make the NDDC board which had been submitted to the Senate for confirmation.
A letter from the Presidency dated November 19 and addressed to the Senate President, Senator David Mark, requesting the confirmation of the nominees reads in part: “Subsequent to the dissolution of the Governing Board of the commission on the 13th of September, 2011, nominations for its reconstitution have been compiled in accordance with Section 2(1) of the NDDC Act as follows:
Senator Bassey Ewa-Henshaw, Chairman- Cross River, Barrister Bassey Dan Abia, Managing Director-Akwa Ibom, Dr Itotenaan Henry Ogiri, Executive Director (Finance and Administration)-Rivers, Engineer Tuoyo Omatsuli, Executive Director (Projects)- Delta.
Others are: Enikuomehin Benson Olorungbonju (Ondo), Ball Turofade Oyarede (Bayelsa), Ephraim Sobere Etete (Rivers), Etim Inyang Jnr (Akwa Ibom), Adah Paul Andeshi (Cross River), Tom Amioku (Delta), Samuel Okezie Nwogu (Abia), Uchegbu Chidiebere Kyrian (Imo), Major-Gen Suleiman Said (Niger, North Central), Alhaji Abdumalik Mahmud (Bauchi, North-East) and Mark Ward (oil-producing companies).
A source close to the National Assembly told the Nigerian Tribune in Abuja that the last may not have been heard about the list of nominees as some of the aggrieved governors have vowed to use their senators at the upper legislative chamber against such nominations at the appropriate time.
“That is not the end of the story, mind you, for a nominee to scale through at the point of screening, he or she must have the support of two out of the three senators from his or state, that is the standing rule, it has not been changed. They will meet the governors at the National Assembly, they will know that blood is ticker than water,” the source declared.

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