From Dennis Mernyi, Abuja

STAFF of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company of Nigeria (NDPHCN) are set to resist government’s plan to appoint outsiders as replace­ment for sacked manage­ment of the agency by Presi­dent Muhammadu Buhari last week.

Daily Sun learnt that the James Olotu-led manage­ment made up of five Execu­tive Directors representing the six geographical zones who were appointed in 2013 at the constitution of the board will be replaced with new set of people who are not staff of the company.

The Federal Government had announced the dissolu­tion of the Executive Man­agement of NDPHCN Lim­ited last week in line with its reform agenda. Notice of the dissolution was contained in a statement issued by Mr. Ba­bachir Lawal, the Secretary to the Government of the Fed­eration (SGF) in Abuja.

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The SGF directed the then Managing Director of the company, Mr. James Olotu, to handover immediately to Mr. Chiedu Ugbo, who had been appointed as acting Managing Director of the company.

According to the SGF, all Executive Directors of the company and the General Manager, Audit, are to hando­ver immediately to the most senior officers in their respec­tive departments.

He stated that the Federal Government appreciated the services of the disengaged of­ficers during their tenure. But the senior staff of the firm are said to be uncomfortable with the trend and have vowed to resist such attempts by gov­ernment. Their grouse, Daily Sun learnt, was the fact that bringing people from outside would discourage continu­ity as they leave when their tenure ends while the tech­nocrats within the agency remain.