Nigeria, Nov. 3 -- The crisis rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is showing no sign of abating as the National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hillard Eta, has criticised the Niger Delta minister, Godswill Akpabio, on the matter.

Mr Eta, in a statement on Sunday, said Mr Akpabio is by his actions and utterances on the NDDC 'embarrassing' South-South APC leaders and the party.

The NDDC, set up in the year 2000, was an agency in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) until the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Mr Buhari ordered that the agency be moved to the Niger Delta ministry, headed by Mr Akpabio, a former Akwa Ibom governor.

Since his assumption of of...