The Foremost Urhobo Youths under the auspices of Urhobo Youth Leaders Council (UYLC), led by Comrade Lucky Emonefe on Tuesday said it has dragged the  Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio to court over the  appointment of a sole administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC .) 


 Lucky Emonefe in a statement made available to newsmen in Jos  said that the suit was filed at the   Federal High Court in warri. 


He said that we had to head to court because     the appointment of the sole administrator is illegal, null and void and breach of the act establishing the NDDC Act .


The decision to head to court is  born out of the genuine desire of the  youths to demand a substantive board that will facilitate development in the Niger Delta region.




"We are asking the court for a restraining order restraining the federal government, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and the sole administrator


The Urhobo Nation which is the fifth largest ethnic nationality in Nigeria and an oil producing nation with her youths drawn from all the clans of the Urhobo Nation have frowned at the politics ongoing within the NDDC board and in the presidency at the detriment of the people of the Niger Delta and the Urhobos' in particular.




 He further expressed the body's displeasure over the recent appointment of a Sole Administration to manage the affairs of the Commission which is an aberration and deviating from the aims for which the commission was established. 


Furthermore, they advised “Mr. President to hearken to the demands of the region's stakeholders and Governors of the South South by putting in place a substantive NDDC board and not a sole administrator for NDDC.” Saying Niger Delta is too sensitive a region to gamble with.