No Court Order Stopping Inauguration Of NDDC Board- NDEF Of

NigerDelta Elders Forum, NDEF, Monday, said there are no court orders anywhere in the country impeding the inauguration of the board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC which was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari and duly confirmed by the Senate on the 5th of November 2019.

Reacting to a media reports, the group in a statement by its National President, Chief Tonye Ogbogbula, said: “Our attention has been drawn to a vexatious story in The Sun newspaper of September 5, 2022, titled ‘NDDC: Oshiomhole, Akeredolu, Sylva battle over MD; Litigations may stall substantive Board.’

“The story is an unnecessary subterfuge being peddled by anti-Niger Delta agents to distract attention from the legitimate demands of authentic stakeholders for the inauguration of the NDDC board in accordance with the law, the NDDC Act”.

The group in the statement held that; “We restate that there are no court orders anywhere in the country impeding the inauguration of the board of NDDC which was appointed by President Buhari and duly confirmed by the Senate on the 5th of November 2019.”