NDDC Brought Out N10bn To Fight Me -Wike

The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has said that he was not surprised by the recent revelations about the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
According to Wike, the agency has since deviated from its original mandate and has become a cash cow for some corrupt politicians.
“I have said before and it is very clear; my concern is everybody knows that NDDC was set up for the development of the region,” he said in a Channels Television programme, monitored in Port Harcourt, yesterday.
Speaking further, Wike alleged that the NDDC brought out N10billion cash to stop his re-election in 2019.
“Unfortunately, they have turned it to a different thing: NDDC is a cash cow for politicians. In my own election, NDDC brought N10billion cash to fight against me,” he said.
Wike was reacting to the emerging revelations of corrupt practices in the NDDC.
It would be recalled that the Senate and the House of Representatives are currently probing the alleged fraud running into billions of Naira in the agency.
The fraud being investigated by the National Assembly was said to have been perpetrated by the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the NDDC between February and May, 2020; although, sources said that a holistic forensic audit of the finances of the commission dating almost two decades is still ongoing.