The president should take his time to investigate the porported appointment and those behind it before constituting the NDDC board with fresh people.

Justice Tsoho Moves To Compromise Lawsuits Challenging Composition Of NDDC Board, Transfers Cases To Abuja
By THEWILL_ - September 28, 2019

Justice John Tsoho
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SAN FRANCISCO, September 28, (THEWILL) – The Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho has been accused of bias, compromise and working with vested interests to ensure that all the lawsuits filed by Rights groups and NGOs at the federal High Courts in Delta, Edo and Rivers States challenging the composition of the Board and Management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) recently announced by the Federal Government comes to naught.

The uproar which greeted the announcement followed the non-compliance with the provisions of the NNDC Act No. 6 of 2000 by President Muhammadu Buhari in the nomination of the leadership of the yet to be inaugurated Board. The Act clearly prescribes how the Chairman and Managing Director and Board should be appointed.

The watchdog group, Centre For Accountability and Good Governance

says it has uncovered a memo from the Acting Chief Justice’s office directing the Registrars of the courts in the states where the suits were filed to hands off the cases and transfer them to Abuja, where the group said they will be reassigned to a favourable judge in the federal capital, who will in turn dismiss the cases.

The statement said: “We have reliably gathered that the Registrars in the Federal High Court in the states where cases were filed to nullify the composition of the board and management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) recently announced by the Federal Government have been directed by the Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho to transfer the cases to Abuja.

“This is an unprecedented development as we have reliably gathered that the cases will be assigned to a compromised judge who is working for the cabal that influenced the illegal appointment. The plan is to have the cases thrown out of the court system.

“We, like several other groups are shocked that President Muhammadu Buhari could be misled to make the appointments into the NDDC in violation of the Law. Gladly, this has been brought to the attention of the President and we believe the delay in forwarding their names to the Senate for confirmation is because he is now aware of the grave error.

“We are however using this statement to alert the public of this shady plot by the Acting Chief Judge and the ugly cabal behind the appointment as we gathered they are hell bent on pressing on with their illegality.”
All the lawsuits are asking the courts to nullify the appointment because it is in conflict with the NDDC Act.
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NDDC: Ondo oil producing communities threaten to sue FG, Buhari
sunnewsonline.com Oct 1, 2019 3:57 AM
NDDC: 4-point agenda for Prof Nelson Brambaifa
Bamigbola Gbolagunte, Akure

Oil producing communities in Ondo State have threatened to sue the Federal Government and President Muhammadu Buhari if an indigene of the communities is not appointed Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

The communities which are located in the oil-rich Ilaje Local Government Area, claimed that it was their turn to produce the managing director going by the rotational arrangement provided by the Act that established it in July 2000.

Addressing a press conference in Akure, yesterday, Secretary General of Egbe Omo Ilaje, the apex socio-cultural organisation of all the communities in Ilaje Local Government Area, Mr. Edamisan Ogunfeyijimi, said President Buhari would be contravening NDDC Act Cap 86 if he failed to appoint an indigene of the area as the next MD of NDDC.

He pointed out that Ondo was the only state that has not produced the managing director or executive director among the nine states that make up the Niger/Delta states despite its quantum of crude oil production.

“It must be emphasised that by the provisions of the act that established the NDDC, which make the offices of the managing director and executive directors of the commission rotational among member states in order of production, it is not intended that a state would hold any of the offices twice while others are yet to take respective turns nor does the law allows a situation where only a few state would rotate the offices amongst themselves to the exclusion of other member states.

“Thus, the current news making the round that the president has approved new appointments in the commission, such that the managing director would come from Delta State and the two executive directors come from Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states would not only be a perpetuation of illegality, but also a continuous slap on the face of other member states.

“We, the people of the oil producing area of Ondo State wish to make it unequivocally clear that we shall not accept anything short of the position of the managing director of the commission, for which we are long due. In the same vein, the position of the chairman of the board of NDDC, having been held respectively by Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa and Cross River states, the office ought to go to Delta State in the alphabetical order of the member states which the act recognises.

“We, therefore, believe that the proposed illegal appointments brazenly announced when the president was out of the country did not receive the blessing of the president. In the same manner, the Senate, which reserves the power of approval of the executive in this regards cannot be rightly called upon to act in violation of the laws made by it,” he said.
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Ondo oil communities to drag Buhari to court . Stay tuned for details

Don70:
This is all the imagination of this writer.
Omo-Agege and Ogboru will just be smiling at your lack of proper enlightenment.
They are both in the game, they play it the way they want it, you are just an onlooker who thinks he knows what is going on but know nothing.

Your opinion does not represent the reality on ground

There is no good reward system in APC because the selfish interest of the Cabals superceed the interest of all members of the party

If PMB send that list to the senate, Delta APC will shut down completely.

Any body who advise Ogboru to continue to work with Omoagege is wicked

This is greed taken too far

We can't continue like this at all

Letter to Ogboru by an APC member Spagety Jayelfish


OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF GREAT OGBORU_

DEAR OGBORU DON'T ALLOW AGEGE USE YOUR HEAD AGAIN___

Your Excellency ;
Chief Great Ovedje Delta Ogboru

Regards Sir;
I pen this piece sir as one who fully supported and voted for you at the just concluded 2019 gubernatorial elections in Delta State. I am pained sir because THE TREACHERY, BETRAYAL,ABSCONDING AND BACKBITING YOU are facing by the Deputy Senate President, Distinguished Senator Ovie Omo-Agege who is regarded as the leader of All Progressive Congress{APC} in the state is unprecedented.
Sir, you will agree with me that since 2003, when you started attempting to occupy the Dennis Osadebay House, NOTHING has been added to your Profile. Since 2003, you have series of betrayal upon betrayal but none is monumental like the one displayed by the person whom you made a Senator in 2015 though he assumed the senatorial seat in 2016. It is an OPEN SECRET that DSP Agege has NEVER AND CAN NEVER WIN AN ELECTIVE SEAT without your Backing. He contested House of Representative Seat in 2003 for Udu and Ughelli and lost woefully, Contested Governorship seat three times and failed abysmally until he came and begged you to support his senatorial ambition which you rightly did in 2015 and allow him coast to victory under the platform of Labour Party {LP}

It becomes Unthinkable for the Great man of Abraka to continue to show unflinching support for the Orogun politician who worked tirelessly to ensure that YOU DIDN'T EMERGE AS MINISTER, Then he equally traded your NDDC Chairman Slot with Adams Oshiomole and Jagaban Asiwaju Tinubu to allow his loyal boy, Bernard Okumagba to emerge as Managing Director, NDDC. To make matters worst, I was taken aback when pictures emerged of DSP Agege in Jubilant mood with PDP echelon two days, I mean just a day passed after the election petition tribunal have struck out your case. DSP Agege didn't ALLOW THE TENSION OR INJURY OF YOUR LOSS AT THE TRIBUNAL to Subside before he began to DANCE SKELEWU with the Opposition. Someone who couldn't leave abroad to attend to any of tribunal issues was seen in parley of PDP with the man, Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa who is believed to have stolen your mandate.

The handwriting is clear, that the enemy within kills faster than the one outside, Agege is your ENEMY, Chief Ovedje OGBORU, Its time to LET GO OF THE ENEMY and fight your fight alone. Please recruit new Media personnel's because the one you had have been bought by a morsel of bread led by you

MelesZenawi:



Didn't buhari rig his own election??

If APC members are not important, we all will move to PDP let's have a one party state in Delta. So that the Cabals can patronize all of us equally

MelesZenawi:



He has to romance PDP, so that he can still retain his seat....that's the pure truth.

Even the Cabals are also romancing PDP. They have subjected APC members to poverty to the extent that they don't believe in their own party loyalist any more. It is no longer news that they are projecting Denis Otuaro of PDP who helped Atiku to rig election as amnesty coordinator when we have the likes of George Timinimi and others in APC.

MelesZenawi:



Na Dem want to be slaves.

PDP is there for them because APC has nothing to offer them.

APC is very infectious, and deadly.

People are calling APC members all sort of names and the deputy senate president is romancing PDP members

MelesZenawi:



The structure is very very weak.

The structure is weak because of this kind of appointment.since 2015, APC members in Delta State have never enjoyed anything from the federal government. A lot of committed members who believed in the president have decamped to PDP because of wrong appointment. PMB appointed Ibe Kachukwu who served himself with the office and patronize PDP members only to the detriment of APC members. This time around, the president has appointed a PDP member Benard Okumagba as NDDC MD. APC members are like slaves in Delta State.

MelesZenawi:
There is no APC in Delta in the first instance.

There is APC in Delta

We warned the Cabals to be careful with the way they handle party issues but they refused

Jator Abido is the younger brother to Benard Okumagba. He was mobilized with fund by the deputy senate president and his elder brother to stage a counter protest in Port Harcourt.

Thanks Read also
RE: 2019: STOP BLAMING OMO-AGEGE FOR OGBORU’S WOE

By Nengiyefa Ese Asokpimi

One of the problems Delta APC had going into the 2019 general election was careless and garage-like window dressing of some of the leaders of our party as exhibited by Martins Aruviere Egharhevwa. It is a fact that Martins is very close to our very own Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Deputy President of the Senate but it remains to be ascertained whether the rubbish penned by Mr. Martins enjoys the blessing of the DPS. Martins is a lawyer but I am disappointed that he gave vent to his emotions rather than sound reasoning when writing his diaspora ‘press conference’. How convenient for him to apportion blames to all the leaders of our party except his beloved DPS. His “diaspora rambling” is nothing but a moulded piece from the gossip mill he patronizes for information back home.

Let me quickly state here that the chief cornerstone of Delta APC woes in the last election was our crabbish resistance to brilliant ideas and blatant disregard to hierarchy. Everyone was a leader, including diaspora aides like Martins who have authorized themselves to speak for their ogas and our party as they see fit.

Ordinarily, I would have ignored his publication in order not to give him the relevance he is seeking but for the benefit of unsuspecting members of our party and the general public who may be misinformed by such baseless defense of his boss, a reply becomes expedient so as to set the record straight. Firstly, unlike Mr. Martins Aruviere, I was very on-ground throughout the electioneering period as I accompanied my leader Alaowei George Timinimi to every party event and worked tirelessly on the field in a mission to deliver my unit, ward and senatorial district to our gubernatorial candidate -Chief Great Ogboru. Field soldiers like us were starved of campaign funds. The story is the same in Delta North and maybe parts of Delta Central. It is an insult or a joke taken too far for an aide of our DPS to discredit ours efforts in his slavish quest to please his boss from his diaspora abode.

Since we all want to travel this path of blame game, it may well become necessary to lift the lid on some of the grievances party members have against the person of Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege which had hitherto been buried on occasion of his exalted position as Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate so as not to rock the boat. Mr. Aruviere must be cruising in dreamland to have thought that it was Sen. Omo-Agege’s bravado that secured his second term ticket as Senator. The power of incumbency and his ability to push Delta APC under the bus on the alter of his 2023 gubernatorial ambition secured him that victory. It is an obvious fact that our dear DPS selfishly wants to become the only tree in the forest ahead of 2023, a well-known fact even within the circle of the PDP that he has been romancing since electioneering period. Otherwise, how do you explain his stay in a hotel very close to government house in Asaba hours after the gubernatorial election? What meeting was he hosting or hosted to, in his two nights stay there? Let him deny if he was not seen with Governor Okowa during that post election trip.

A question Mr. Aruviere should have asked was when was campaign funds released for the gubernatorial election. Who controlled the funds? It will interest him to know that fund was not released to the campaign council as chaired by our former Governor, Dr. Emma Uduaghan. It should also interest him that our gubernatorial candidate, Chief Ogboru and DPS are the ones who took and disbursed the campaign funds. Who else are we to hold responsible for our failure?

When Uduaghan came into the party, his first task was to unite the party through harmonization of the various tendencies, warning that failure to cultivate an attitude of winning election will cost our party. Shortly afterwards, disquiet started growing from Omo-agege’s camp on why Uduaghan should harmonize both factions. Sen. Omo-agege was quoted as saying that “Uduaghan who just came into the party cannot dictate to them” by trying to harmonize the party executives across board with an aim to fostering peace and unity between the Ortega Emerhor/Cyril Ogodo and Ogboru/Jones Erue tendencies. Hence, Omo-Agege worked at variance with the decision and aspirations of the campaign council.

The Cyril Ogodo versus Jones Erue crises lingered too long because Senator Ovie Omo-Agege was not ready to enhance Ogboru’s chances of becoming the governor. Which political party has gone into election divided and emerged victorious? Did the same thing not play out in Zamfara, Rivers, Oyo and other states where our party lost shamelessly? Whereas the Delta PDP was as united and deeply rooted in the grassroots as ever. After the crisis was resolved at the National level, a written agreement was prepared which outlined how positions will be shared after elections, such that when it is signed, the agreement will be used as consent judgement by the Emerhor group to withdraw the case from court so that the party could work as one body into and after the elections. Senator Ovie Omo-agege and his group refused to sign the peace deal because it will brighten the party's chances which will determine his chances ahead of the 2023 gubernatorial election. Ovie Omo-agege did everything within his powers to block the harmonization. As a result, the Ortega group continued with their litigations until Omo-Agege’s emergence as Deputy President of the Senate.

Being the Deputy President of the Senate has not automatically exonerated Senator Omo-Agege from the woes that befell the party where he holds the record as the first politician to emerge as Senator from an opposition party in Delta State. Unlike the other party candidates who drowned in the sea of multifaceted challenges bedeviling Delta APC to Omo-Agege’s delight and ego trip, he may not have secured his second term in the hallowed chamber if he was not a sitting senator. It will be a monumental disgrace to the DPS if he can not, at this time, use his position and national influence to steady the ship of our party instead of pursuing an Urhobo agenda solely. We Delta Ijaw and Isokos are watching him. If he pushes away the ladder he climbed to national relevance so as to prevent others from climbing, there may be no ladder for him to climb down to perfect his 2023 ambition in Delta State. We may all decide to go mad together and burn this party and his ambition down.

Uneasy, is the curse awaiting whoever wants to where the crown. Let our dear DPS fit it on his head appropriately.[code][/code]

Just in;
Groups Clash In P'Harcourt Over NDDC Appointments

Reactions trailing the newly appointed Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), continued on Tuesday, as two opposing groups staged protests on Aba Road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The groups carrying placards with varying inscriptions led by Johnson Amachree, Amadi Kingsley, Amos Eze and Tamunor Victor called for dissolution of the Board saying the government did not follow the NDDC Act in constituting the board.

They also claimed they were as well protesting the omission of their names in the already compiled Water Hycent project that was made to empower youth leaders from the region.

Similarly, another group supporting the Board claimed that those protesting against were sponsored by people it alleged had stampeded the development of the region.

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, August 27, nominated new board members for the interventionist agency for the oil-rich region, with Mr. Bernard Okumagba from Delta State as managing director designate and Chief Pius Odubu from Edo State as chairman.

But shortly after the appointments were announced, some stakeholders in the region kicked against it, saying the appointments were lopsided.

The governors of states in the region also faulted the constitution of the Board claiming that they were not consulted before the appointments were made.

But, in a swift reaction, some youths challenged the governors to give account of the stewardship rather than dissipating energies on a Federal Government Board appointment.

Addressing the protesters, Niger Delta activists and youth leaders, Engr Jator Abido, Mr Beke Apere, George Kpesu and Ayema Peres Benjamin appealed for calm saying the interest of the region should be paramount and not individual aspirations.

The leaders, who spoke separately, expressed confidence in the NDDC Board and sued for support from all quarters to enable development of the region.

Engr Jator Abido particularly, expressed total and unalloyed support to the new board, question the grounds on which the protesters against the new NDDC board laid their grouse.

The youth leaders, who had been engaging in wide consultations and dialogues with relevant stakeholders for peace to reign, called on all well-meaning Niger Deltans to support the new administration of the commission to achieve needed success for the benefit of the region.

“I Engr Jator Abido, the NDYC National Coordinator of the Niger Delta Youth Council, NDYC, has repeatedly said that I should be held responsible if this new board fails”[code][/code]

aljharem:
nothing will happen

You can confirm what is happening from the link below
https://www.nairaland.com/5396115/recession-looms-buhari-aso-rock

The crises rocking the Delta State chapter of the All Progressive Congress APC has taken a new dimension as the party finally split into four main groups. Recall that there had been protest against the various appointments made by the President in Delta State especially the NDDC board appointment. Tension rose when president Muhammadu Buhari appointed Bar. Festus Keyamo as Minister of state Niger Delta. Although Festus Keyamo has been working closely with Mr. President in Abuja, Delta APC members regard him as an Abuja politician who does not have touch with the grassroot.99% of APC members in Delta don't know his house and how to reach him. Even his ward people don't know him.it is the believe of Delta APC members that such person should have been appointed as special adviser to the president on legal matters or any other appointment that will keep him around his usual abode in Abuja. APC members had expected that the president will appoint either the governorship candidate of the APC Chief Great Ogboru with large followeres in Delta State or Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan , former governor of Delta State who equally has large followers across the state. While the party was still mourning the loss of the ministerial appointment to an Abuja based Festus Keyamo, the greatest shocker occurred with the appointment of Benard Okumagba who worked for PDP in the 2019 general elections. Benard Okumagba who didn't attend APC campaign rallies in Delta and never participated in any campaign activities throughout the electioneerig period was picked as NDDC MD designate to the shock and disbelief of party faightfuls. This left party members with no other option than to drag Mr. President to various courts to stop the screening and confirmation of Mr. Benard Okumagba and Dr. Pius Odubu on two grounds : 1. That the appointment of Dr. Pius Odubu contravenes the NDDC act which provides that the rotation of the position of the chairman shall be in alphabetic order. In line with the provisions of the act, it is the turn of Delta State to produce the chairman of the board 2. That Benard Okumagba is not from any known oil producing community in Delta State . These actions were fueled by the fact that the Deputy senate president Senator Ovie Omo-agege is from the Urhobo ethnic nationality, the minister Bar. Festus Keyamo is from Urhobo ethnic nationality and Benard Okumagba is also from Urhobo ethnic nationality, leaving all other tribes and senatorial district without appointment. The Itsekiris, Ijaws, anioma and Isokos became frustriated which led to the filing of suits in various courts to challenge the appointment. Having discovered that the DSP is taking undue advantage of his office to influence appointment only to his chronies, other leaders in the party rose against the DSP which led to the splitting of the party into four camps viz: Ogboru faction, Omo-agege faction, Uduaghan faction and Otega Emerhor faction. Other allegation against the Deputy Senate president is that he is working with PDP to frustriate the APC governorship election petition to pave way for him to contest in 2023. If nothing is done by the presidency to calm frayed nerves, APC may finally pack up in Delta State before 2023.

It is now a thing of shame to identify yourself as an APC member

APC members are living like beggars in Delta State

Serious tension in Delta APC now because of the NDDC

Crises is brewing in Warri over the appointment of Benard Okumagba as NDDC MD. A man whose community has no drop of oil. A man who is a PDP supporter in the last election. A man who was not seen in any APC campaign rally.

Delta State APC is in big trouble . The party may disintegrate before 2023

Mr. President don't ignor this call. If you do, the distruction of APC will start from Delta.

How can he win without the riverine areas who were short changed in the appointment? The riverine areas are the oil producing areas in Delta State. Dont provoke them by your comment because if they strike oil facilities there will be no money to run the government. Okumagba avenue has no drop of palm oil , not to talk of crude oil