As the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Bassey Dan Abia, and other top management of the commission meet with President Muhammadu Buhari today at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, concern has mounted that the team may either be sacked or an inter-agency panel set up to scrutinise the accounts of the commission.

The team comprising Abia; the Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Dr. Henry Ogiri; Executive Director, Projects, Mr. Omatsuli Tuoyo; and other members of the governing board have two more years to complete their tenure, having been inaugurated in December 2013.

A source in the commission said that the audit report recently released by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, may have heightened concerns among the members of the governing board and management who arrived Abuja last night.

The source said: “From all indications, the management of the commission may either be given the marching order because there are several petitions against it in respect of issues ranging from contract splitting and the rest, or a panel set up to probe the accounts of NDDC…”

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