A Niger Delta-based youth organisation, Advocates for Good Governance has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore critics and confirm the acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Professor Nelson Brambaifa as substantive MD.
Coordinator of the group, Mr. Briggs Lokpobiri in a statement said the organisation has observed a consistent and orchestrated campaign by some recruited elements to tarnish the image and discredit the efforts of Prof Brambaifa who has repositioned the commission to attain its statutory mandates in the past few months.
He said the ultimate aim of the sinister plot is to rob Bayelsa state of its rightful opportunity to produce the substantive managing director of the commission, saying: “that is why the youth group and indeed the entire youth of the region call on the president to do the needful by confirming Brambaifa as the substantive managing director of the commission without further delay.
“We appeal to Mr. President to ignore whoever that is calling for Brambaifa’s removal. We are calling on the youth, elders, and ancestors of the state to fight against those who are opposing his confirmation as the substantive managing director of the commission.
“The entire leadership of Bayelsa state must close ranks and line up behind him to succeed. Bayelsans should know that should this slot slip away from us, we will have no other persons to blame than ourselves. This is our slot. This is our turn to produce the next Managing Director of NDDC.
“After Rivers and Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa is next in line as the highest producer of oil in the entire country.
“In the last couple of months of his being at the helm of affairs of the NDDC, Brambaifa has demonstrated his unalloyed commitment to the mission and vision of the commission by his words and deeds,” he said.
