Abuja—Ijaw elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark has called for the exclusion of Abia, Imo and Ondo states from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
According to Politics Nigeria, Clark stated that the aforementioned states were included in the 2000 NDDC Act for convenience, which he maintained was a political aberration and long overdue for change.
He however demanded for President Bola Tinubu to re-enact a new bill for the NDDC that would reflect the true oil-producing states of the Niger Delta, which are Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo and Akwa Ibom.
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