Ijaws and Niger Deltans Will Resist Sinister Moves To Sack NCDMB Secretary, Wabote—APC Chieftain, Chief Johnny Vows

<h4>Ijaws and Niger Deltans Will Resist Sinister Moves To Sack NCDMB Secretary<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that the Ijaw leader of All Progressives Congress APC in Delta State&comma; High Chief Michael Johnny has faulted calls from certain persons demanding for the sack of Engineer Wabote&comma; the Executive Secretary&comma; Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board&comma; NCDMB&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Johnny&comma; a former APC Senatorial aspirant&comma; Delta South district&comma; told newsnen on Saturday&comma; that those persons&comma; particularly from the Niger Delta region championing the blackmail and agitating for sacking of Wabote&comma; should have a rethink&comma; and desist from such an ungodly act&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Ijaw chief&comma; said &&num;8221&semi; we are still demanding for more federal appointments for our indigenes in Niger Delta region&comma; and some persons are mischievously calling for the sack of an indigene of Niger Delta&comma; Engr&period; Wabote over yet to be proven allegations&period; The Ijaws and Niger Delta people would not accept any sinister move to unjustly remove Wabote from office&&num;8221&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The former chairman of Egbema Gbaramatu Communities Development Council said&comma; &&num;8221&semi; I&comma; Chief Michael Johnny&comma; I have never met with Engr&period; Wabote and I have never had any dealings with him whatsoever&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;However&comma; <img class&equals;"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12723" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;01&sol;Johhny-300x192&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Ijaws and Niger Deltans" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"192" &sol;>since no competent Court has found Wabote guilty&comma; and no agency of crime has found him guilty as well&comma; therefore&comma; anyone or persons calling for the sack of Wabote are being mischievous and attempting to blackmail&&num;8221&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Johnny&comma; urged President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources&comma; Timipre Sylva to ignore calls to sack Engineer Wabote&comma; Executive Secretary&comma; Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board NCDMB&comma; who is performing his duty&comma; adding that every plot to distabilize the region must be rejected&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Ijaw activist&comma; noted that Engineer Wabote should be allowed to do his job for which he was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari&comma; pointing out that Wabote is still innocent of whatever allegations being made against him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It will be recalled that Wabote was accused of alleged non-disclosure of two existing foreign accounts&comma; Bank of America and HSBC in his Code of Conduct <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">Bureau<&sol;a> &lpar;CCB&rpar; form among others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;