Buhari sacks NDDC board, appoints Ibim Semenitari acting MD
Olaoluwa Folalu
President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the managing director and chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Bassey Dan Abia and appointed Ibim Seminitari as acting head of the commission.
According to New Mail Online, Seminitari was the immediate past commissioner of information in the administration of Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers state and now, Minister of Transport.
Abia, an indigene of Akwa Ibom state, was appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2013.
There was strong opposition to the choice of Abia, who was believed to have enjoyed the backing of Godswill Akpabio, former governor of Akwa Ibom state and the then chairman of the governors’ forum of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Before his appointment as NDDC boss, Abia had served two terms as the representative of Akwa Ibom.
