X- Agitators Urge President Buhari to Appoint Independent Candidate for Amnesty Programme

X- Agitators Urge President Buhari to Appoint Independent Candidate for  Amnesty Programme

 

By Jessica Akete FPR

Former agitators under the auspices of Niger Delta Freedom fighters, led by self styled General Agbobulaga Ebube has urged  President Muhammadu  Buhari to reposition the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) by appointing an independent candidate known and acceptable to the grass-root people. 

Speaking with news men in Warri yesterday, Agbobulaga expressed disgust and dissatisfaction on how the social media is proliferated with campaigns from those desperate to occupy the of office. He hovered that politicizing the programme to its functional objectives and purpose.

 Agbobulaga also noted that the agitations from ex-militants was in their desire for equity in the development of the Niger Delta region which in the first instance necessitated the birth of the Amnesty programme. 

Reminiscing on the good old days of the struggle for fairness towards his deprived people and the region, he stressed that the civil society groups played  major roles by creating awareness and engaging the Country with several sensitive educative programmes which ignited the birth of the programme. 

General Agbobulaga lamented that the civil society groups which were in the fore front of the peace initiative in the region have tactically been schemed out, noting that the government should be properly guided by the antecedence of the amnesty to further assist in the effective realization of its purpose of greater benefit to the people of the Niger Delta and the government of Nigeria. 

He called on the President who he respects so much to beam his search light on the Civil Society Organization who he wondered why they have all these while been made to occupy the back stage. 

Agbobulaga expressed regrets that Professor Charles Dokubo was suspended following series of petitions, however, it should not serve as an opportunity for some glorified militants and political godfathers to use political means to lobby for the sensitive position no matter how close to the corridor of power or the presidency.

The X agitator further noted that lobbying from those connected to the militant camps, political groups or leaders in the Niger Delta is just a ploy to tune the presidency toward appointing their stooges and earn them the platform to again breed and energize militancy.

 The presidency is further advised not to create any room for superiority contest, insecurity, that will further plunge the programme into monumental failure.

He said “ Mr President the time has again come for those that are interested in their personal wellbeing to again show their faces, you should please disregard them and go for an active youth” he affirm that President Mohammadu Buhari will fully succeed in his quest for the repositioning of the Amnesty Programme if he disregards the calls from  the clandestine network  of some of his political appointees, which the people of the Niger Delta noted have unholy mission.

General Agbobulaga requested that the President should fill the vacant office with a civil society leader from the Niger Delta, someone, unabashedly devoted to peace advocacy using prerequisite sagacity to galvanize the amnesty programme on the pedestrian of success.