- The special adviser to the President Muhammed Buhari on Niger Delta affairs, Charles Dokubo, has cried out
- Dokubo described the alleged attempt to link him to the violence that erupted in the region after the election postponement as malicious
- The special adviser also gave an assurance that President Muhammadu Buhari's achievements would make people vote him
The special adviser to President Muhammed Buhari on Niger Delta affairs, Charles Dokubo, has given an assurance that the people of the region will massively vote the president because of his enviable achievements.
Vanguard reports that Dokunbo, who is coordinator of presidential amnesty programme, made this known in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, February 17, through his special assistant on media, Murphy Ganagana.
Legit.ng gathers that the professor also warned against an alleged attempt to blackmail him and other people from the region working for President Buhari.
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The special adviser also cleared the dust surrounding his alleged involvement in a fracas that led to the destruction of PDP secretariat in Abonnema, Akuku-Toru local government area of Rivers state.
He described the incident, which happened following the postponement of the election on Saturday, February 16, as unfortunate, adding that attempt to link him with the fracas was a “barefaced falsehood concocted by vicious mercenaries of the opposition to mischievously draw sympathy.''
He said: ''I arrived Abonnema on Friday evening to enable me to cast my vote the next day, before the election was postponed. But I was shocked when my attention was drawn to a post on social media alleging that I aided thugs to attack the PDP secretariat at Abonnema.
“This is a wicked and dangerous lie as I had no dealing with any thug and didn’t step out of my residence in my brief stay in the community. But for the presence of my security men, my residence would have been attacked over a false alarm.”
On President Buhari's chance in the place, Dokubo said: “The Niger Delta people are with President Buhari because they are reaping the gains of amnesty programme since I came on board. With president’s support and determination, we were able to commission a world-class vocational training centre for our beneficiaries at Agadagba-Obon, Ondo state recently.
“A few days later, we commenced distribution of starter packs to residents of communities impacted by crises in the Niger Delta; commissioned a liaison office in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, and also performed foundation laying ceremony for another vocational training centre of the amnesty programme at Gelegele, Edo state.
''All these we did within a period of two weeks, and it has endeared president to the Niger Delta people. So, the opposition is jittery of an imminent defeat and therefore doing everything to cause chaos. The allegation of sponsoring thugs at Abonnema against me is a step in this direction.”
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that a group of former Niger Delta agitators - the Peace Ambassadors of Niger Delta (PAND) on Wednesday, February 13, endorsed President Buhari as its preferred candidate for the presidential election.
This was disclosed in a communique issued and signed by Ebikabowei Victor, the leader of PAND, at the end of a one-day workshop organised by the group in Port Harcourt.
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