FCT, Abuja – Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reverse the purported scrapping of the Ministry of Niger Delta.
TimesNow.com.ng recalls that President Tinubu announced the scrapping of the ministries of Niger Delta and sports development in a major cabinet reshuffle.
Frank recalled that late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua created the ministry to carry out focused critical interventions to revitalise the degraded ecosystem occasioned by long years of oil exploration and production.
He argued that the ministry has helped to reduce the incidences of youth restiveness and damage to oil installations to the barest minimum.
He said this in a statement issued in Abuja and made available to TimesNow.com.ng on Friday, October 25.
He described Tinubu’s decision to abolish the Niger Delta Ministry as “hasty and biased”, adding that the region’s resources are being continuously exploited to service other regions.
Frank wondered why Tinubu created a Ministry of Livestock Development to combat the farmers/Herders crisis in the North but chose to abolish a ministry created to solve youth restiveness, incessant crises, and agitations for resource control in the Niger Delta.
He warned that Tinubu will be responsible for the actions of the Niger Delta people.
TimesNow.com.ng reported that at least 31 ministers were given the chance and opportunity to continue their various projects in different parts of the country.
The FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, finance minister, Wale Edun, and 29 others escaped President Bola Tinubu’s bug stick as he reshuffles his cabinet.
The 31 ministers were not affected by the sack and redeployment of some ministers to another ministries.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
