{"id":28268,"date":"2020-08-04T19:13:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T19:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28268"},"modified":"2020-08-04T19:13:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T19:13:39","slug":"nddc-brought-out-n10bn-to-fight-me-gov-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nddc-brought-out-n10bn-to-fight-me-gov-wike","title":{"rendered":"NDDC brought out N10bn to fight me \u2013 Gov Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said that he is not surprised by the recent revelations about the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).<\/p>\n<p>According to Wike, the agency has since deviated from its original mandate and has become a cash cow for some corrupt politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have said before and it is very clear; my concern is everybody knows that NDDC was set up for the development of the region,\u201d he told Channels Television on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, Wike alleged that the NDDC brought out N10 billion cash to stop his reelection in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, they have turned it to a different thing; NDDC is a cash cow for politicians. In my own election, NDDC brought N10 billion cash to fight against me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wike was reacting to the emerging revelations of corrupt practices in the NDDC.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate and the House of Representatives are currently probing the fraud running into billions of Naira in the agency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-2\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The fraud was said to have been perpetrated by the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the NDDC between February and May 2020.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2\" data-layout=\"list\">\n<div class=\"jp-related-posts-i2__row\" data-post-count=\"3\"><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said that he is not surprised by the recent revelations about the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). According to Wike, the agency has since deviated from its original mandate and has become a cash cow for some corrupt politicians. \u201cI have said before and it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":9872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1152,1425],"class_list":["post-28268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-governor-wike","tag-ncdc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NDDC brought out N10bn to fight me \u2013 Gov Wike - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said that he is not surprised by the recent revelations about the activities of the Niger Delta Development\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nddc-brought-out-n10bn-to-fight-me-gov-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NDDC brought out N10bn to fight me \u2013 Gov Wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said that he is not surprised by the recent revelations about the activities of the Niger Delta Development\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nddc-brought-out-n10bn-to-fight-me-gov-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-04T19:13:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Nyesom-Wike-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nddc-brought-out-n10bn-to-fight-me-gov-wike#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nddc-brought-out-n10bn-to-fight-me-gov-wike\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"NDDC brought out N10bn to fight me \u2013 Gov Wike\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-04T19:13:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nddc-brought-out-n10bn-to-fight-me-gov-wike\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nddc-brought-out-n10bn-to-fight-me-gov-wike#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Nyesom-Wike-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"governor Wike\",\"NCDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nddc-brought-out-n10bn-to-fight-me-gov-wike#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nddc-brought-out-n10bn-to-fight-me-gov-wike\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nddc-brought-out-n10bn-to-fight-me-gov-wike\",\"name\":\"NDDC brought out N10bn to fight me \u2013 Gov Wike - 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