Governor Rotimi Akeredolu backs Senators rejection of Ondo nominee for NDDC

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, of Ondo state, has supported the rejection of the nomination of Charles Ogunmola, as the Executive Director, Project in the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC board by the three Senators representing the state in the National Assembly.

Ogunmola, who was nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari, is from Owo, a non oil producing area of the state as against the NDDC act.

The senators, who jointly wrote the letter of rejection of Ogunmola to the Senate President Ahmad Lawan, include Robert Ajayi Boroffice (North), Pius Akinyelure(Central) and Nicholas Tofowomo(South).

They said that their rejection was premised on “the fact that the nomination of Mr Charles Ogunmola is non compliance with the provisions of Section 12(1) of the NDDC (Establishment, etc) Act, 2000.

“The aforementioned Act clearly states that the nominee for the position of Executive Director, Project of NDDC “shall be an indigene of oil-producing area”. Charles Ogunmola is not an indigene of oil producing area of Ondo State. 

However, Akeredolu, in a statement signed by his information and Orientation Commissioner, Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, in Akure, the state capital, threw his weight behind the rejection of Ogunmola by the three Senators representing the state.

The statement reads “We receive with pleasure, that the Distinguished Senators representing the three Senatorial Districts of Ondo State have demonstrated unalloyed team spirit, in their joint insistence that the contents of the Act establishing the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) be strictly adhered to.