Nnolim Nnaji on Friday faulted the media report accusing the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila of shielding some members of the House listed by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio as beneficiaries of the Niger Delta Developments Commission (NDDC) contracts. Nnaji described the news report captioned ‘NDDC Probe: PDP Reps accuse Gbajabiamila of shielding defaulting lawmakers’ as untrue and didn’t represent the collective position of the generality of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the House. He noted that the alleged letter referred to in the report could not stand as the position of the major opposition lawmakers in the House of Representatives. Nnaji emphasized that it was unfair to accuse the Speaker of shielding the lawmakers where else he was the one who in the first place compelled the Minister to produce the names.

Source: Nigerian Tribune August 07, 2020 17:37 UTC