Following the rejection of the nominations of Charles
Ogunmola as the Executive Director, Projects on the board of the Niger Delta
Development Commission, NDDC, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics,
Privileges and Public Petitions and Senator representing Ondo Central, Ayo
Akinyelure has disclosed that the nominee was rejected for not meeting up with
the act of the NDDC.
While giving reasons for the rejection of Ogunmola,
Akinyelure stated that he is not from the mandate area of Ondo State where oil
is being produced.
On Thursday, the three Senators from the State kicked
against the nominee over what they described as a breach of the NDDC act.
They argued that Ogunmola is from Owo in the northern
senatorial district of the State as against the oil-producing Ilaje and Ese-Odo
Council Areas in the southern part of the State.
The Senator, in a statement issued by his Special Assistant
on Media and Strategy, Charles Akinwon, stated that the act setting up the
commission stipulated that a nominee must come from an oil-producing area.
While emphasising that President Muhammadu Buhari must have
been misinformed on the nomination of Ogunmola, Akinyelure appealed that
another name of a qualified nominee should be sent to the Senate for screening.
“Though Mr Charles Ogunmola is from Ondo State, he is not
from the oil producing area of Ondo State and that was why the three Senators
from Ondo State unanimously rejected his nomination,” he stated.
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