Timi Frank Faults Submission Of NDDC’s Forensic Audit Report To AGF

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has faulted the submission
of the forensic audit report on the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC) to the Attorney-General of the Federation(AGF)
and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.

The report was received last week from the Minister of Niger
Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, by Malami on behalf of President
Muhammadu Buhari.

Frank in a statement issued yesterday described the action as
subterfuge by Akpabio to keep the real findings of the forensic
auditors from the president.

He wondered why Malami should receive a report of a committee he
did not constitute.

According to him, “The last time I checked, Malami was not the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) or the Chief of
Staff to the President. Do we now have ‘super ministers’
superintending over other ministers within Buhari’s cabinet? Or is
Malami the much talked about ‘unelected alternate President’ in the
Villa?

“If this macabre drama between Akpabio and Malami was not
orchestrated to undermine Buhari, then what was it meant to
achieve? Let the AGF publish a memo, if any, by which Buhari
directed him to receive the report from Akpabio or let Akpabio
publish the president’s memo, if any, that mandated him to handover
the report to the AGF. Buhari was not only in town the day Akpabio
danced naked in the name of transmitting the forensic report to the
AGF, he was equally hale and hearty.”

Frank alleged that Akpabio in cohorts with Malami have decided
to take the president for a ride by deliberately bypassing him on
matters relating to the NDDC as made clear in their refusal to hand
the forensic audit report to Buhari.

He, therefore, called on Buhari to urgently reconstitute the
board of the NDDC in order to have direct and unhindered access to
the funds of the commission allocated primarily for the development
of the Niger Delta region.

Akpabio also urged the president to immediately recall the
report and subject it to thorough analysis by industry experts with
a view to ensuring that the true content of the report, undertaken
with taxpayers’ money, is made available to Nigerians,
particularly, the people of Niger Delta region long subjugated and
denied their statutory right by Akpabio.

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has faulted the submission
of the forensic audit report on the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC) to the Attorney-General of the Federation(AGF)
and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.

The report was received last week from the Minister of Niger
Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, by Malami on behalf of President
Muhammadu Buhari.

Frank in a statement issued yesterday described the action as
subterfuge by Akpabio to keep the real findings of the forensic
auditors from the president.

He wondered why Malami should receive a report of a committee he
did not constitute.

According to him, “The last time I checked, Malami was not the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) or the Chief of
Staff to the President. Do we now have ‘super ministers’
superintending over other ministers within Buhari’s cabinet? Or is
Malami the much talked about ‘unelected alternate President’ in the
Villa?

“If this macabre drama between Akpabio and Malami was not
orchestrated to undermine Buhari, then what was it meant to
achieve? Let the AGF publish a memo, if any, by which Buhari
directed him to receive the report from Akpabio or let Akpabio
publish the president’s memo, if any, that mandated him to handover
the report to the AGF. Buhari was not only in town the day Akpabio
danced naked in the name of transmitting the forensic report to the
AGF, he was equally hale and hearty.”

Frank alleged that Akpabio in cohorts with Malami have decided
to take the president for a ride by deliberately bypassing him on
matters relating to the NDDC as made clear in their refusal to hand
the forensic audit report to Buhari.

He, therefore, called on Buhari to urgently reconstitute the
board of the NDDC in order to have direct and unhindered access to
the funds of the commission allocated primarily for the development
of the Niger Delta region.

Akpabio also urged the president to immediately recall the
report and subject it to thorough analysis by industry experts with
a view to ensuring that the true content of the report, undertaken
with taxpayers’ money, is made available to Nigerians,
particularly, the people of Niger Delta region long subjugated and
denied their statutory right by Akpabio.