Cabinet Reshuffle Momoh Assures Niger Delta Regional Stakeholders Of Continued Commitment

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Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Abubakar Momoh, has assured stakeholders that the redesignation of the ministry was primarily administrative.

He said it would not diminish the focus of the Ministry.

He spoke in the aftermath of President Bola Tinubu’s restructuring of ministries and cabinet reshuffling, necessitating the appointment of seven news ministers.

Speaking to State House correspondents after the federal executive council presided by President Bola Tinubu, Momoh explained that the restructuring was necessitated by the need to create a unified supervisory framework for the growing number of regional development commissions across the country.

These include the Northwest Development Commission, Northeast Development Commission, and Southeast Development Commission, among others.

“For our people in the Niger Delta region, I would like them to know that this has not removed anything from them,” Momoh stated.

“The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is still very much in place under the Ministry of Regional Development, and all other such agencies remain intact.”

The minister emphasized that the change is merely nomenclatural, designed to reflect the ministry’s expanded scope rather than any reduction in its commitment to Niger Delta development.

“All the structures and everything about the Niger Delta remains. It’s just a change of nomenclature and, of course, expansion of activities of the ministry,” he clarified.

Momoh praised President Tinubu’s vision behind the restructuring, describing it as a forward-thinking move to enhance regional development coordination across Nigeria.

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