The sole administrator, Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr Efiong Akwa, has said those who were pushing for the inauguration of a substantive board for the commission were sponsored to cause crisis in the region.

According to him, some elements outside the regions were hiding under agitations for the constitution of a substantive board of the NDDC to throw the region into crisis.

Akwa spoke during the inauguration the Progressives Patriots Initiative, a pressure group within the All Progressives Congress.

He said,  “The only peaceful region we have in Nigeria is the South-South because we are peaceful people and that is why peaceful things will follow you. We want peace in the APC because we are peace loving people.

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“And so when you have peace in the South-South being threatened and people give ultimatum that within seven days, if you don’t set up the NDDC we are going to blow oil pipelines, we knew that the whole thing was a game plan by enemies outside the region.

“Those outside this region also want our region to boil like theirs. If we allow that to happen Nigeria would have gone to another phase because the resources used in managing Nigeria 90 per cent comes from your region.’’

He lamented that enemies of the region have misconstrued the forensic audit ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari to right the past wrongs in the NDDC and were rather insisting on the inauguration of a board for the commission.