A Yoruba group, Oodua Nationalist
Coalition, ONAC, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse new
appointments in the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
The group advised Buhari to appoint a technocrat Yoruba of Ondo State extraction as Managing Director of the NDDC.
In a petition sent to the President, ONAC said the appointments are
tilted towards the disadvantage of Ondo State, which is the 5th largest
oil producing state in the country.
“We condemn in very strong terms the failure of you the President
to appoint an indigene of Ondo State as the Managing Director of the
NDDC. Mr President sir, instead, you appointed both the Chairman and the
Managing Director from Akwa Ibom and Cross River States which remain
the stronghold of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) which voted and
campaigned against your government in the last elections,” ONAC said in the petition signed Dr Ahmed Adeluyi on behalf of 35 Yoruba groups.
“Ondo produces about 18% of Nigerian oil output. Because of the
disruptive activities of the militants, the state, which used to be 5th
on the production list, is now No 4 on the list of the oil producing
states”, it explained.
“Ilaje is the only local government that produces oil in
Yorubaland apart from the new found oil in Lagos . The best way for
Buhari to even the age long injustice against the Yoruba oil producing
communities is to appoint a technocrat of Ilaje extraction as the new
head of the NDDC”.
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