The minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has come hard at the immediate past managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Ms Joy Nunieh as a temperamental woman unable to hold down a husband.
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Responding to the allegations levelled against him by Ms Nunieh, the minister in an interview confessed that she was not sacked because of corruption but for insubordination and believing that she was higher than him.
Ms Nunieh is a close political and family associate of President Muhammadu Buhari who has had a relationship with the first family for many years before the All Progressives Congress, APC came to power.
Ms Nunieh who was removed by Akpabio as managing director but kept as a member of the commission’s Interim Management Committee, IMC had on Friday accused Akpabio of corruption, coercing her to take oats among other indiscretions.
However, responding in an interview on Arise Television, to her allegation, Akpabio asked her “to go to the hospital; see a doctor; get some injection and relax.”
“I am not saying anything is wrong with her. But something is wrong with her temperament. You do not need to ask me. But you ask about four other husbands she married.
“She was not relieved of her appointment because of corruption. But she was relieved of her appointment because of insubordination. My ministry that supervised her wrote seven letters to her. She never responded. And then she said she was bigger than the Minister of Niger Delta.”
Akpabio in the interview lamented that the NDDC became a place where stakeholders used to make money for elections. He, however, said that after making the money they never won the elections because it was ill-gotten money.
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