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Court Dismisses Suit Seeking To Nullify Ebie as NDDC Chair

Court Dismisses Suit Seeking To Nullify Ebie as NDDC Chair

A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the suit filed by the oil-producing communities in Bayelsa and Delta State, seeking to nullify the alleged illegal appointment in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

 

Recall that the communities had approached the court, seeking a nullification of President Bola Tinubu’s appointment of Chiedu Ebie, as Chairman of the NDDC, arguing that Ebie is not qualified to head the Board of the NDDC since he is not from the oil-producing area with the highest quantum of oil production.

 

However, Justice Joyce Abdulmalki who delivered the judgment this Thursday, dismissed the suit, saying the plaintiffs had no locus standi, citing section 24(2) of the NDDC Act

 

Meanwhile, Ebie responded and described the judgment as well-considered, intelligently delivered and courageously sound.

 

He says the ruling has finally laid to rest every ambiguity, innuendo, half-truth and misrepresentation of facts surrounding the provisions of NDDC Act on appointments.

 

Blaze Fm

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