Breaking: Itse Sagay: How President Buhari Ignored My Advice On Corruption And NDDC; Asks Him To Sack The Interim Board

By Gideon Njoku

Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, has sensationally revealed that his advice to President Muhammadu Buhari as it concerns a couple of appointments to the Board of the  Niger Delta Development, NDDC was ignored by the President.

Sagay revealed that he had privately advised Mr President against appointing a couple of  people to the NDDC Board, given their antecedents, but his advice was not heeded to.

The Professor of Law is the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption.

Speaking on a Channels Television programme, Politics Today, anchored by Seun Okinbaloye, Sagay bemoaned the fate of the sorry state of the Niger Delta region which, he said, has continued to wallow in abject poverty and zero social amenities.

He lamented that, unfortunately, “the billions and billions” meant for the region,  were always stolen by sons of the region. He described the situation as frightening.

Sagay pointed out that the Region has become a laughing stock, because it can no longer complain, without other regions asking the Niger Delta why their sons were in the habit of stealing the money meant for the development of their region.

Asked if he had advised  the President on  such appointments, he disclosed that he had advised him privately on such appointments, but that Mr President appointed the people he had advised him against all the same.

But he had one more advice for the President.

He asked him to sweep clean the NDDC, and appoint a new set of people to hold fort for a very short period, and then, institute a new Board, declaring the Interim Board arrangement as an anomaly.