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Is Godswill Akpabio Out To Undermine President Buhari?

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Is Godswill Akpabio out to undermine the authoritie­s of his current political benefactor, President Muhammadu Buhari? How can a man who’s being investigat­ed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission now become a champion of anti-corruption crusade?

During his eight-year reign in Akwa Ibom State, the former governor had a field day doing as he liked. He monkeyed around and the citizens he superinten­ded over could only grumble in whimpers.

Let’s get back to the questions raised at the outset. Here’s providing some background: President Buhari in August announced the appointmen­t of the Board of NDDC with Chief Bernard Okumagba as managing director and Chief Odubu as the chairman subject to senate clearance.

On October 29, the names of the newly appointed board members were forwarded to the senate for clearance in a week’s time.

However, on that same day to the utter consternat­ion of Nigerians, Akpabio ran to ChannelsTV and announced the appointmen­t of a threeman NDDC interim management committee led by one Mrs. Joy Ghene Nuieh as the acting managing director.

What’s Akpabio’s agenda in setting up the interim management committee? How can an interim management committee be set up when the senate just cleared the board members ready for an inaugurati­on? What would the interim management committee achieve within one week?

Concerned Niger Deltans are at the moment very angry with Akpabio, a man infamous for his selfaggran­dizement.

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