By Omeiza Ajayi
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has been accused of frustrating the developmental efforts of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, especially with the recent sealing of the NDDC corporate headquarters in the state capital, Port Harcourt.
Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Yekini Nabena told journalists Thursday in Abuja that the move was a partisan attempt at portraying the federal government as unperturbed by the numerous challenges afflicting the state.
The Rivers State Internal Revenue Service had on Wednesday sealed off the corporate headquarters of NDDC in Port Harcourt over an alleged unpaid withholding tax of about N50bn.
Chairman of RIRS, Adoage Norteh, said the NDDC premises were sealed off because the commission refused to make its financial records available for audit.
But the NDDC had swiftly denied the claims in a statement by its director of corporate affairs, Charles Odili, saying that the commission’s record…
