…Urges Gov. Oborevwori to call him to order

*There’s no party politics in our leadership election—Mr Gomeromo

By Chancel Bomadi Sunday

BOMADI—The national chairman, Phase 3 of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, and leader of the APC Ex-agitators Forum, APCEF, Delta State, General Para Ekiyes, has accused a parallel national chairman of the group, General Preye Ekpebide, of complicity in the affairs of Phase 3 of the programme.

Para, in a statement issued and signed by him, which was made available to newsmen, yesterday, averred that the said parallel group was bent on thwarting the efforts of his executive, as well as an inside source for his sponsors in the amnesty programme under President Bola Armed Tinubu.

The statement reads in part: “The national leadership of Phase 3 and members of the APC Ex-agitators Forum wish to draw the attention of the federal government and office of the amnesty programme to the planned efforts of a factional group, led by one General Preye Ekpebide, a core PDP youth leader and Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori on Youth Development, to distract and destabilize our efforts.

“The said General Ekpebide is a core PDP youth leader in Delta State, who was sponsored by some PDP element to be an eye for them in the amnesty programme.

“Their mission is for him to be a source of information and a go-between within the programme, reporting salient issues to them from the office with the intent of discrediting the efforts of the APC-led federal government.

“We, members of the APCEF, wish to call on the coordinator of the programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, to be wary of the so-called General Preye Ekpebide and his group because their mission is to cause distraction in the running of the Third Phase, as well as the amnesty programme.

“We know that Gov. Oborevwori is not aware of this amnesty politics embarked upon by his political aide, we know that the governor has no issues with the President Tinubu-led APC government, and we know that if he was aware of this political voyage of his aide, he would have called him to order.

“So, we are using this medium to call on the governor to call his aide to order and advise him to desist from his amnesty politics to allow peace reign in the Third Phase.

“More so, we are urging the presidency not to allow such a group of PDP loyalists to hijack the Third Phase for their sinister plans, as we were elected and sworn in a day before they conducted their so-called parallel election”.

However, in his reaction, the spokesman of the General Ekpebide-led executive, Mr Henry Gomeromo, said” It is a lie that there is existence of PDP and APC politics in the amnesty programme. You may belong to any political party and It’s all a ploy to tarnish the image of the duly elected national executive of the Third Phase.

“We made a move to appease aggrieved persons after the election, including Para Ekiyes was approached but he is bent on sabotaging our efforts. The truth of the matter is that there is no party politics attached to choosing Third Phase leadership of the Presidential Amnesty Programme”.
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