All Advice To Scrap Amnesty Programme Were Rejected By Buhari – Dokubo Urges Niger Deltans Support For Buhari

Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Prof. Charles Dokubo has encouraged the Niger Delta to show support for President Muhammadu Buhari on his second term bid, saying that he shunned every advice to scrap the amnesty programme they presently enjoy.

Dokubo, on season’s vacation in his home community, Abonema, Akuku Toru local government area, Rivers state, said on New Year eve that Niger Delta’s support for Buhari in February’s polls would show the apreciation the people towards the presdent.

“There was advice by some persons that PAP should be terminated as it was an adhoc programme but the president insisted that the programme should go on. Government has done a lot about the programme. It has not relented in its support for the programme.

“With The type of vocational centres that have now been developed in Kaiama and other places, I strongly believe that the next level the President is bringing, which I know will come, will even be better for this programme”, Dokubo projected.

He said since the inception of PAP, a lot of Niger Delta youths had benefited from numerous scholarships and vocational skills, saying that he did the home coming to Abonema to mobilise his Akuku Toru kinsmen to stand out as first to return the President in this year’s elections.