 Oil producing communities in the Elijah local government area of Ando state have protested the appointment of two members of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC board for the state by President Bola Tinugu. The protesting Indians who said the nominees are not from the oil producing areas of the state issued a seven-day ultimatum for a reversal vowing to stop oil exploration in their region if it is not done. This protest has mostly used from the oil producing areas of Elijah in Ando state sailed through several riverine communities to express their rejection of the appointments of Otitua, Tikase and Ifedaio, Begunde. Our interest is very simple. Let the president and people the department be followed the art of NDDC and nominate our sons and daughters. We have a competent son and daughter that can represent us on that board. We cannot be laying the golden head and the community is suffering the digression of this oil production and some people will be taking the gain of this oil in our land and that is why we are here today to let the federal government know that it is a producer in Ando state not any other kingdom that producer in Ando state. Sadly Igbo Kingdom are calling on the authority concern to please as a matter of urgency reverse this appointment and put the right ones from Igbo Kingdom in place so that we can have our people fully represented in the board of NDDC. It has been stated that one of the basic criteria of appointing or nominating any person on the board of NDDC is that trust a person must come from an oil producing community. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.