From Yakubu Busari, in Jos
The Urhobo Youth Leaders Council (UYLC) led by Comrade Lucky Emonefe on Tuesday dragged the Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio to court over the appointment of a sole administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC .
Lucky Emonefe in a suit with No: FHC/WR/CS/2/2021, filed at the Federal High court in Warri in Delta state through his counsel challenged the appointment of a sole administrator in clear violation of laid down procedure under the Act establishing the Commission
He said the appointment of the sole administrator for the Commission is illegal, null and void and a breach of the Act establishing the NDDC .
According to Emonefe, “We are asking the court for a restraining order against the Federal Government, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, and the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and the sole administrator of the NDDC.”
The Urhobo youths drawn from all the clans of Urhobo land frowned at what they called “the politics within the NDDC board and in the Presidency to the detriment of the people of the Niger Delta and the Urhobos’ in particular.
He further expressed the body’s displeasure over the recent appointment of a Sole Administration to manage the affairs of the Commission which is an aberration and deviating from the aims for which the commission was established.
They urged “Mr. President to hearken to the demands of the region’s stakeholders and governors of the South South by putting in place a substantive NDDC board and not a sole administrator for NDDC.” adding that “Niger Delta is too sensitive a region to gamble with.”
