Few months after President Muhammadu Buhari named H.E, Godswill Akpabio as the honourable minister of Niger Delta Affairs and Barr. Festus Keyamo SAN, as the honourable minister for state, Niger Delta Affairs, it was alleged that Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege became furious over the announcement.
He made frantic efforts to ensuring that the learned silk, Mr Keyamo got sacked from the next level cabinet since he was not his preferred nominee from Delta State neither can he (Omo-Agege) imagine his Delta Brother be in control of the Niger Delta affairs ministry.
It took the grace of God and the intervention of trusted allies for Barr. Festus Keyamo to be redeployed to the ministry of labour and employment where he is currently making plausible exploit.
Reliable sources had it that the furious Ovie Omo-Agege who wasn't happy over Keyamo's deployment to the ministry of Niger Delta, pulled a stunt with stakeholders from Ondo state to push for their ministerial nominee who was designated in the ministry of Labour and employment to be redeployed to the ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. This he did with the intention of paving way for his already drafted NDDC nominees' list which had Ben Okumagba an Urhobo man as the managing Director of the commission.
Recall that when Mr President went on a weeklong summit in faraway Tokyo, the desperate Omo-Agege in connivance with some principal officers in the senate and key officers from the SGF's office sent an unauthorised NDDC nominees list to the senate for screening.
This caught the attention of Nigerians and looked more like African Magic drama being displayed.
Few weeks later when the president went on another scheduled travel, the same set of desperate persons brazenly carried out their inhuman act of screening a board that wasn't approved by the president and commander in chief.
This irked the president who ordered for disciplinary measures on those that took part in the dirty dealing. It is on record that the president worked out Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege and his acolytes who were on their knees begging the president for usurping his powers of making appointments and questioned them if there were two Grand Commanders of the federal Republic of Nigeria.
Omo-Agege who never relented after all these disgraceful and desperate acts brought upon his urhobo people, has continued to push his way into making sure that his nominees are sworn in as management team of the Niger Delta Development Commission.
Senator ovie Omo-Agege hands are all over the series of unfounded allegations and blackmails being peddled on all media platforms. This is just to discredit the IMC of the NDDC put in place by Godswill Akpabio through Mr President's consent to oversee the forensic audit of the commission.
The level of sponsored media rascality, protests and blackmails being paraded by Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege are unprecedented since the reign of democracy in Nigeria politics.
After much observations as to why the desperation of having the commission to his caprice, findings were made and a plethora of reasons were given by an aide to Omo-Agege why the Senate Deputy President is desperately in need of the commission.
According to the aide who preferred to be quoted on the condition anonymity, "Omo-Agege needs the top job of the commission to oil his 2023 gubernatorial ambition in Delta State. He has seen that without securing the top job for his recently found godson, Ben Okumagba, his ambition will be a fruitless charade."
Going further, why do you think my Boss is making majority of his appointments from members of the Ibori political family from most of the Local Government Areas. of Delta State, the aide asked.
It was also established that the over two hundred appointees he made are being service through loans despite slashing most of the legislative aides salaries to fifty thousand naira and senior legislative aides to one hundred thousand naira. Consequently, the Delta Central Senator urgently need to get the control of the oil commission to offset most of these payments.
It will interest you to note that senator ovie Omo Agege's only reason for the dirty fight is to fleece the commission's purse as he is doing with the Niger Delta Basin Development Authority (NDBDA) where he is the defacto commander contracting majority of the Commission contracts to his companies.
This will be elucidated upon in subsequent bulletin.
Yes, It was established that there is rot in the Niger Delta Development commission reasons the honourable minister of Niger Delta affairs; HE Godswill Akpabio who is the supervisory minister of the commission was instructed by Mr President to carry out a forensic audit of the commissions account since it establishment.
This necessitated the honourable minister goodwill in putting in place an Interim management committee that will oversee the audit without any interference from any quarter.
The committee is making headlong progress and with the recent extension of the IMC tenure until December 2020 clearly indicates that Mr President who gave them the mandate is aware of the progress made so far and he is very pleased with their actions so far.
Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege and his enemies of the Niger Delta region should allow Mr President's appointees to carry-on with their assignment and stop the distraction of due process.
Dr. Philip Amagada, Public Analysit writes from Lagos.
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