NDDC contracts: Akpabio visits National Assembly, seeks peace

NDDC contracts: Akpabio visits National Assembly, seeks peace

- Godswill Akpabio has taken a humble pie as the minister paid a fence-mending visit to the National Assembly

- The minister's visit came barely two months after he was fingered in the NDDC corruption mess

- Akapbio met top lawmakers during his National Assembly visit, including the chairman, House committee on NDDC, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo

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Amid different corruption controversies deluging the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), minister of Niger Delta Godswill Akpabio has paid a peace meeting to the National Assembly (NASS).

Legit.ng recalls how the minister was fingered in the corruption mess and shoddy distribution of contracts following a joint investigation by the Senate and the House of Representatives into the commission.

However, the minister, while fighting back, opened the can of worms when he said federal lawmakers are the biggest beneficiaries in the shoddy deal perpetrated under NDDC.

NDDC contracts: Akpabio visits National Assembly, seeks peace
Godswill Akpabio has taken a humble pie as the minister paid a fence-mending visit to National Assembly. Credit: The Nation.
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Akpabio, who is a former senator, on Tuesday, September 15, visited the National Assembly on fence-mending, with the move coming two months after the face-off capped lawsuits.

According to The Nation, Akpabio first met with the acting clerk to the National Assembly, Amos Olatunde-Ojo.

The minister later held closed-door talks with the chairman, House committee on NDDC, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, and spokesman for the House, Benjamin Kalu.

“I am here (National Assembly) to congratulate the acting CNA for his elevation. . . In any case, I am a senator, so seeing me in the National Assembly should not be a surprise; as a former Minority Leader of the Senate and a senator, I believe I am a senator for life.

”Nobody will refer to me as Governor Akpabio, they will always refer to me as Senator Akpabio so this is a homecoming for me," the minister said while addressing the pressmen on ground.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that Kayode Ajulo, a Nigeran lawyer, has told the NDDC to publish the names of those involved in the alleged misappropriation of N40 billion revenue and budget.

Ajulo, who gave the commission a seven-day ultimatum, made this known in a letter dated Wednesday, September 2, addressed to NDDC under the leadership of its managing director, Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei.

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