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Jonathan’s ally, Ima Niboro, joins APC

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A former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Ima Niboro, has joined the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Mr. Niboro was ushered into the APC on Monday at his residence in Udu Local Government Area of Delta.

He told NAN that, “My membership of the APC is true.’’

Mr. Niboro, a former Special Adviser on Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, said his joining the APC was meant to align Delta with the government at the national level and to galvanise development.

“It is not a sudden switch. I have had 18 months to study the situation as it concerned my ward, local government, community and even my state.

“I have to conclude that there is time for everything. This is the time for us in Delta to link up with the Federal Government in order to bring development to our land.

“We cannot at this critical point of our history be left out of Federal Government’s development agenda.

`There is no synergy between Delta and the Federal Government and we cannot achieve that synergy when we are working at cross-purposes.

“We must work together to achieve that synergy,” NAN quotes him as saying.

Mr. Niboro, a former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, member, decried the level of infrastructure decay in Delta.

He was formally received by APC stalwarts in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta, where he hailed from.

FG Queries NAN MD, Sets Panel To Probe Him Over Corruption Allegations

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The federal information ministry has ordered the board of the News Agency of Nigeria to immediately commence investigations into over a dozen allegations of corruption and highhandedness against the agency’s boss, Ima Niboro.

In response, the board has raised a three-man committee, led by a board member, Ossai Ifeanyi, to thoroughly investigate the allegations against Mr. Niboro and report back to the board without delay.

The board will in turn furnish the information ministry with details of its findings with a view to determining whether Mr. Niboro is innocent or guilty of the allegations and whether he should be allowed to remain in office or be removed.

Sources at the information ministry also told PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday that the ministry, which described the allegations as “grievous”, has already queried Mr. Niboro, asking him to respond to the charges.

The investigation commences more than one month after three staff members of the agency petitioned the information ministry, which has supervisory powers of NAN, accusing Mr. Niboro of financial mismanagement and authoritarianism.

The Chairman of the agency’s board, Ibrahim Buba, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday that investigation into the allegations against Mr. Niboro had begun based on the instruction from the information ministry.

The petitioners accused Mr. Niboro of distorting a functional organogram of the agency through “irrational transfers,” approving fund beyond his legal limits, awarding contracts without necessary approvals and running down the morale of workers.

Mr. Niboro denied all the charges in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES saying the petitioners – although faceless – constituted a cabal that mismanaged the agency before his appointment. He argued that the changes he has so far made at the agency put him at odds with the cabal after he shut down financial leakages and administrative recklessness at the agency.

“When you fight corruption, corruption fights back,” he said. “They accuse you of corruption to muddle the issues.”

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