The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has reacted to the allegations made against him by Joy Nunieh, a former Acting Managing Director of Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nunieh recently made some damning revelations about the Minister and former Governor of Akwa Ibom State on his handling of the Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing the press after she appeared before Senate adhoc Committee investigating NDDC, Mrs Nunieh recounted her ordeal at the hands of the Minister before she was removed as the NDDC MD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among other claims, Mrs. Nunieh said, \u201cNobody makes any payment in NDDC without Godswill Akpabio\u2019s approval. When we first came, on the day of the inauguration, he said to me in the car, \u2018Madam MD, if you don\u2019t do what I say, the same pen with which I used to sign your paper is the same pen I\u2019ll use to remove you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe said the first thing I should do when I get to Port Harcourt is to change the dollars in the NDDC account. I was scared to do that and he claimed that I have a poverty mentality that I\u2019m afraid of money. All of you knew that he accused me of refusing to spend money. It is strange today, it\u2019s about money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAfter that, he came to Port Harcourt two days after the inauguration and told me that the first thing I should do was to change the dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But reacting in a television interview that has gone viral on social media, Akpabio said the former NDDC MD has character problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minister also charged his interviewer to bring the four husbands of Nunieh, whom she had alllegedly divorced, to the studio to attest to her temperament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, \u201cI don\u2019t want to discuss her because that\u2019s not the job of a Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe last MD you mentioned, Joy Nunieh, I wish she can go to hospital, see a doctor take some injections and relax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m not saying that there\u2019s something wrong with her, but I\u2019m saying there\u2019s something wrong with her temperament. Remember she had about four other husbands that she married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou also need to bring all the other former husbands to the studio so that you ask them questions one after the other because it looks like character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey will have answers to her problem. Not a professional conduct, is she a professional?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey will tell you about her characters because what I\u2019m seeing here\u2026if somebody comes up and say something on television channel\u2026then the whole world\u2026Nigerians love bad news and my job is to protect the citizens of the country and the administration of Mr. President .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI must tell you that even Mr. President, President Buhari was not aware of all these things because I did not want to bother because he will be shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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