NDDC: Why did the Senate reject Ondo’s nomination — Akinyelure

Following the rejection of Charles Ogunmola’s nomination as Executive Director, Projects on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions and Senator representing Ondo Central, Ayo Akinyelure, stated that the nominee was rejected for failing to meet the NDDC’s act.

Akinyelure claimed in his reasoning for rejecting Ogunmola that he is not from the mandate region of Ondo State where oil is produced.

On Thursday, the state’s three senators blasted the candidate for what they called a violation of the NDDC legislation.

They said that Ogunmola is from Owo, the northern senatorial region of the state, as opposed to the oil-producing Ilaje and Ese-Odo Council Areas in the south.

According to the Senator’s Special Assistant on Media and Strategy, Charles Akinwon, the laws establishing the panel mandated that a nominee must come from an oil-producing area.

While emphasising that President Muhammadu Buhari may have been mistaken about Ogunmola’s nomination, Akinyelure urged that another suitable nominee’s name be given to the Senate for vetting.

“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.