The Presidency appears to be in a dilemma over the composition of the board and management of the Niger Delta Development Commission.
Our correspondent gathered that the Presidency was confused by the irreconcilable differences among the stakeholders in the Niger Delta on the composition of the board and management of the interventionist agency.
It was also gathered that the disagreement on the choice of qualified persons to serve on the board and the management of the commission by the political and ethnic leaders in the region was responsible for the delay in appointing the new helmsmen.
The disagreement was pronounced among the ethnic nationalities in the region, who were desperate to plant their surrogates at the helm of affairs of the commission.
Investigation by our correspondent also showed that the Presidency had been overwhelmed with many petitions on the composition of the board and the management of the agency by the various groups and ethnic nationalities.
The board and management of the agency were dissolved by the Presidency on April 9, 2009 after the mandatory term of four years.
Consequently, a director in the agency, who also acted as Executive Director, Finance and Administration on the former board, Chief Power Aginighan, was appointed by the Presidency as the Acting Managing Director of the commission.
The immediate past Managing Director, Mr. Timi Alaibe, handed the reins of power to Aginighan on April 17.
The Presidency had zoned the chairman of the commission to Bayelsa State, the managing director to River State, the executive director, finance and administration to Delta State and Executive Director in charge of projects to Akwa Ibom State.
The Presidency said it would appoint the chairman, managing director and the two executive directors, while the governors would recommend three persons from their states for appointment as state commissioners.
But the Presidency was yet to appoint anybody for its alloted posts.