BY JIDE AJANI
PRESIDENT Umar MusaYar’Adua has reached out to governors in the opposition political party in oil producing states pursuant to actualizing his resolve to end the restiveness in the oil-rich region, Sunday Vanguard can reveal.
One of the ways Yar’Adua is going about this is by conceding the nomination of members to the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to governors in the region, including those of the four states controlled by the opposition. The position of chairman goes to Bayelsa State.
The nomination to the office of the chairman of the commission was ceded to Vice president Goodluck Jonathan after President Yar’Adua reportedly pressurised Governor Timi Silva to allow Jonathan make the nomination.
A source in Bayelsa State said “but for the intervention of President Yar’Adua, Governor Silva was never going to allow the vice president make the nomination”.
The incoming managing director of NDDC from Rivers State is the choice of Governor Rotimi Amaechi. But Sunday Vanguard has discovered that President Yar’Adua’s move is not going down well with PDP leaders in those states.
Their grouse is that past nominations to the boards of government parastatals, agencies and departments (and, in this instance, NDDC) in states not controlled by a governor of PDP extraction, had always been the exclusive preserve of the president working through the instrumentality of PDP leaders in the nine states of the Niger Delta region.
The practice during the eight years of former President Olusegun Obasanjo was that states not governed by PDP had always enjoyed the benevolence of juicy ministries of agencies of government.
But President Yar’Adua is determined to proceed with his paradigm shift. In fact, President Yar’Adua was said to have made it clear at a meeting with state governors that “it was not right for somebody to sit in Abuja and pick what the law describes as representatives of the states.”
Sunday Vanguard was reliably informed by an ally to President Yar’Adua that the latter was said to have insisted that at a time when the Niger Delta Amnesty package was being worked on, “a bottom up approach to issues of representation would also go a long way in assuaging the fears of the people of that region.
A CLOSE LOOK AT YOUR BOARDS HAVE DONE MORE HARM THAN GOOD TO THE ND REGION.PLEASE FOR GOD SAKE SCRAP THAT CONDUIT PIPE CALLED NDDC FOR SELECTED LOOTERS IN THE REGION,APPOINTED TO SETTLE THE FEDERAL KLEPTOCRATS.FOR THE INTEREST OF NIGER DELTA PEOPLE,PLEASE SCRAP THE SO CALLED MINISTRY……WHICH IS ANOTHER DUPLICATION OF A NON FUNCTIONING AGENCY.WELL,HISTORY TO COME WILL ATTEST TO IT.
WHEN, WE HAVE THE LIKES OF VP,WHO CAN BE LIKEN TO BRUTUS,THE ND GOVERNORS APPOINTED BY THE ILLEGITIMATE FEUDAL LORDS,LAW MAKERS AS AN OBEDIENT ROBBER STAMP,……….WHAT HOPE DO THE LEGITIMATE STAKEHOLDERS HAVE IN THE FACE OF OPPRESSION AND TYRANNY.WHAT HOPE DO WE PLEBIANS HAVE IN THE FACE OF FORCEFUL MILITARY OCCUPATION ,WHAT HOPE DO THE CHILDREN YET UNBORN HAVE IN THE BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL…….WHERE WATER IS LUXURY,ELECTRICITY,ROADS ,BUILDING AND NECESSITY LIKE FOOD IS A MIRRAGE.WHAT HOPE DO WE HAVE?IN THE MIST OF PLENTY,WE HAVE BE TURN TO SLAVES,HACKED AS DIRECTED BY THE ILLEGITIMATE FEUDAL LORDS,RAPED WHEN THEY FEEL THE URGE FOR IT,REFUGGEES IN YOUR OWN HOUSE AND THE TRAITORS ARE JUSTLING FOR POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS.
ONE THING IS CERTAIN ,’THE REIGN OF EVIL OVER GOOD IS TEMPORARY’ ,IT IS A MATTER OF TIME.EQUITY,JUSTICE AND FAIRPLAY ARE SIMPLE WORDS,BUT DIFFICULT IN THE EYES OF THE TYRANT.WHY?
plenty plenty talks, abeg we need actions. committee on ND are getting just too much and who is paying all these bills?
ND PDP leadership has crab mentality strategy. Why should the choice of NDDC appointments be the responsibility of FG. We have weak political leaders in ND. If they can’t get along and mutually nominate the best candidate for positions in NDDC then they are useless to the people of ND. I don’t blame Yara Adua. If Imoke/Ameachi/Sylva/Uguaghan are unable to handle appointments fairly in NDDC within ND peacefully then they are not prepared to work for the interest of ND. Very sad. Unelected Governors don’t know their responsibilities except to hiring public relations experts to publish their image. They don’t like criticism either. They want to be worshiped like gods.
ND PDP leadership have crab mentality. Why should the choice of NDDC appointments be the responsibility of FG. We have weak political leaders in ND. If they can’t get along and mutually nominate the best candidate for positions in NDDC then they are useless to the people of ND. I don’t blame Yara Adua. If Imoke/Ameachi/Sylva/Uguaghan can handle appointments in NDDC within ND peacefully then they are prepared to work for the interest of ND. Very sad. Unelected Governors don’t know their responsibilities except to hiring public relations experts to publish their image. They don’t like criticism either. They want to be worshiped like gods.