The scrapping of the Niger Delta Ministry has raised mixed reactions in the polity with a host of Niger Delta leaders and activists kicking against the move as the Federal Government explained that the ministry was renamed and not scrapped.
Elder Statesman and Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, said Niger Delta people would not accept the move.
Urging President Bola Tinubu to explain to the people of the Niger Delta why he scrapped the ministry, Chief Clark alleged that the federal government was planning to use the resources of the South-South zone to fund other zonal development commissions.
Briefing state House Correspondents after the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the Ministry of Niger Delta Development was renamed Ministry of Regional Development.
