By Emem Idio, Yenagoa

Major Stakeholders from the Presidential Amnesty Programme ,PAP, have described as “mischievous and ill-advised” the calls by some groups seeking the sack of the Administrator of PAP, Dr. Dennis Otuaro.

According to the stakeholders led by the foremost former freedom fighter and Co-founder of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Chief Ebikabowei Victor-Ben also known as General Boyloaf, the people of the Niger Delta region are solidly behind the PAP boss and are grateful to President Bola Tinubu for appointing a product of the struggle as the leader of PAP.

Boyloaf, in a statement in Yenagoa urged the presidency to shun and disregard those “unknown elements and faces trending on social media behind the call for the sack of Chief Dr. Dennis Otuaru, stating that those behind the call do not have the locus standi to make such call.

He said: “The Presidential Amnesty Programme ,PAP, is a Special Purpose Vehicle ,SPV, established for specific leaders and stakeholders and not for the entire Niger Delta region, rather, the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and the Niger Delta Development Commission ,NDDC, were both established to cater for the region.

“Let me inform those involved and their sponsors that stakeholders in the region have unanimously declared our support for Chief Dr. Dennis Otuaru as the substantive Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. He is qualified, competent and most importantly he respects the elders and key stakeholders in the Amnesty Programme.

“This is the time for everyone to move and support the Amnesty boss to deliver on the Presidential Mandate for the Programme.”

He noted that it is shocking and distasteful that the unknown and faceless urban gorillas behind the calls for Otuaro’s sack were silent during the tenure of former PAP bosses.