Although the Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, has accused other FG agencies of violating presidential directives, investigations have revealed that the NPA itself delayed for over a year, in obeying presidential directives.

Sources close to the Nigerian Shippers’ Council disclosed that a presidential directive to institute an electronic call-up system for the ports in April 2017 was only announced for implementation plans recently.

Besides, while NPA according to the MD, complied with the executive order for all port operations to be coordinated at one point, the agency itself did not cooperate with the presidential task team on Apapa according to the report of the panel before its disbandment.

While the NPA MD may be correct that agencies did not obey presidential directives, observers think her calling out the Vice President may be mischief since the Vice President does not have any executive authority of enforcement.