The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Mark Okoye and Professor Abdullahi Shehu Ma’aji for appointment as the Managing Directors and Chief Executive Officers of the South East Development Commission (SEDC) and North West Development Commission (NWDC) respectively.
The confirmation, which included 34 nominees, took place during resumption of the plenary presided over by President of the Senate Godswill Akpabio.
The confirmations followed the submission of a report by the Ad-Hoc Committee on Regional Development Commissions, led by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.
Abia North Senetor, Orji Uzor Kalu said the committee had thoroughly and diligently screened the nominees and found them suitable for the appointment. And he went ahead to recommend for the confirmation of the chairman and members of both Southeast Development Corporation and Northwest Development Corporation.
He added that the report presented captured the desire of the people who these appointees were going to serve in the commission.
The report indicated that the nominees had demonstrated their capacities to lead the respective commissions during the screening process.
The Senate resolved to proceed, voting to dissolve into the Committee of the Whole to consider the report, ultimately approving all the nominees.
The confirmed nominees for the SEDC, the 18-member board is led by Dr. Emeka Nworgu as Chairman, with Mark Okoye as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.
Other members include Barr. Ugochukwu Agballah, Okey Izenwa, Hyacinth Ikpor, Chidi Echeazu, Ifeanyi Agwu, Nasiru Usman, Hamma Adama, Ali Kumo, Edward Onoja, Kufre Inima, Daniel Akwari, Joke Adebayo-Chukwuma, Stanley Ohajuruka (E.D. Finance), Sylvester Okonkwo (E.D. Corporate Services), Toby Okechukwu (E.D. Projects), Anthony Agbo (E.D. Commercial and Industrial Development), and Dr. Clifford Ogbede (E.D. Natural Resources, Agriculture and Rural Development).
The nominees underwent a screening process by the Senate’s ad-hoc Committee.
