Members of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC board, have asked the National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja, to declare that President Muhammadu Buhari has no powers to sack them as their appointments are governed by statutes and for a fixed period, as same period has not expired.
It will be recalled that there were recent circulars from the office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, dated July 16, 2015, Ref. No. SGF.19/S.81/XIX/964 and July 23, 2015, Ref. No. SGF.55/S.2 that all boards stand dissolved. The Sen Bassey Ewa-Henshaw led board, through their counsel, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegborowa, is contending that the circular were wrongly applied to NDDC.
Defendants in the suit are the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senate and House of Representatives. Their counsel pointed out that by virtue of section 6 (6) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, once parties have submitted their dispute before a competent court, none of them is allowed to resort to self-help or to take any step that may jeopardize the due hearing of the matter on its merit.
The claimants argued that by virtue of sections 2, 3 and 5 of the NDDA Establishment Act, they were entitled to four years unbroken tenure from December 16, 2013 to December 15, 2017 and they cannot be deprived of the said appointments, or removed from office, dissolved or their appointments terminated save and in accordance with the extant provisions of the said Act.
According to them; “By virtue of the NDDC Establishment Act, the Governing Board of the commission cannot be dissolved, either through the letters dated July 16, 2015, Ref. No. SGF.19/S.81/XIX/964 and July 23, 2015, Ref. No. SGF.55/S.2, respectively, or in any other manner that constitutes a violation of sections 2,3,5 and other extant provisions of the said NDDC Act.”
They are praying the court to; “Declare that the letters respectively, are ultra vires, ineffective and ineffectual to ground the dissolution of the 4th Governing Board of the NDDC and the same are invalid, null and void and of no effect whatsoever, in so far as they relate to the dissolution of the said Governing Board.
“An order forthwith re-instating the claimants as members of the 4th Governing Board of the NDDC in compliance with their respective letters of appointment and sections 2, 3, 5 and other extant provisions of the NDDC Establishment Act and to direct the second defendant to pay all allowances, benefits and perquisites to which the claimants are otherwise entitled.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/dissolution-nddc-board-drags-buhari-to-court/

This guyz don't know we re in military era...

Wondering when The Board of Boko Haram would be dissolved too..

Won't be surprised an _Aboki takes ova a Niger Delta Board...

Buhari has just spent just a little over 100 days in office and he already has many cases against him in court. Scary times

Eyaaaa..... see what foreseeable 'egunje' in NDDC has done to our Sen. Bassey Henshaw & Co Ltd.
Come to think of it, you wan die put for the office ni? Or na ur Papa company? Person wher you dey work for say him no need your service again na by force? What of if he decided to scrap the entire ministry or the agency will you be talking about tenure? Please look for another job or better position yourself as a contractor to the same NDDC.
Okay i get ur point Sen Bassey, while others are running for second term, they are depriving you of even finishing your first term. I see, go sit down for dorty jaare.

Aufbauh:
Eyaaaa..... see what foreseeable 'egunje' in NDDC has done to our Sen. Bassey Henshaw & Co Ltd.
Come to think of it, you wan die put for the office ni? Or na ur Papa company? Person wher you dey work for say him no need your service again na by force? What of if he decided to scrap the entire ministry or the agency will you be talking about tenure? Please look for another job or better position yourself as a contractor to the same NDDC.
Okay i get ur point Sen Bassey, while others are running for second term, they are depriving you of even finishing your first term. I see, go sit down for dorty jaare.

are you a mugu?
dont you support changi?
do you like kworroption?
dont you support due process?
if their tenure is four years,
so let it be.
if they steal money,
you can probe them.
after buhari finish probing Lady aisha down below.

They're lucky I'm not the president, I would have scrapped the NDDC kpata kpata sef.. mcheeww.. Shey no be wen agency exist e dey get board? Let me hear what the bloody looters will say.

kokoA:
They're lucky I'm not the president, I would have scrapped the NDDC kpata kpata sef.. mcheeww.. Shey no be wen agency exist e dey get board? Let me hear what the bloody looters will say.

sorry oo.
the president has no such powers

kokoA:
They're lucky I'm not the president, I would have scrapped the NDDC kpata kpata sef.. mcheeww.. Shey no be wen agency exist e dey get board? Let me hear what the bloody looters will say.

All this mummy's boys,scrap NDDC and Niger-Deltan youths go 'scrap' petroleum pipelines and we shall see where your hungry lots will be fed from.

The court cases would be as huge as the anticorruption war.

Aufbauh:
Eyaaaa..... see what foreseeable 'egunje' in NDDC has done to our Sen. Bassey Henshaw & Co Ltd.
Come to think of it, you wan die put for the office ni? Or na ur Papa company? Person wher you dey work for say him no need your service again na by force? What of if he decided to scrap the entire ministry or the agency will you be talking about tenure? Please look for another job or better position yourself as a contractor to the same NDDC.
Okay i get ur point Sen Bassey, while others are running for second term, they are depriving you of even finishing your first term. I see, go sit down for dorty jaare.

a hypocrite is a hypocrite

FreeGlobe:
Buhari has just spent just a little over 100 days in office and he already has many cases against him in court. Scary times

he has immunity

Bunch of thieves

Nice one , I expect another group of Nigerians to sue dat duara Dullard for appointing an Ex-military man as DG customs

allocation given to nddc should be added to the various state accounts ....nddc is a scam created by obj to virtually please the niger delta and not to realistically better the life of the people

AustineE1:

All this mummy's boys,scrap NDDC and Niger-Deltan youths go 'scrap' petroleum pipelines and we shall see where your hungry lots will be fed from.

Just the way they "burnt down" the country when GEJ lost abi? You sit in the comfort of your house and plan aluta. Mcheeew. You have spoken like a real mummy's boy. You talk as if your region will be insulated from the hunger. Infact the nigerdelta will suffer it more if misguided youths decide to 'scrap' petrotreum pipelines.

kokoA:
They're lucky I'm not the president, I would have scrapped the NDDC kpata kpata sef.. mcheeww.. Shey no be wen agency exist e dey get board? Let me hear what the bloody looters will say.

we need to stop feeding you yorubbers, you people are bad and ingrates.

googlepikin:
we need to stop feeding you yorubbers, you people are bad and ingrates.

who enjoys the oil money more? Who gets 13percent extra from federal government? Stop "feeding" us naw let's see how you will feed also

Military regime back