“President Bola Tinubu Is A Leader Who Prioritizes Youths Development”_

By Freeborn Abraye

According to Dr. Dennis Otuaro, the administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), President Bola Tinubu is a youth-friendly leader.

During the Tuesday “Let Is Build Together” theme event in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Otuaro made this statement during the NDDC Executive Management Engagement with Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders and Selected Stakeholders.

According to a statement released by the PAP Administrator’s Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Igoniko Oduma, Tinubu’s youth friendliness and passion for the Niger Delta have made him an advocate for the people of the region to own the administration.

He claimed that among other appointments, the president made him the PAP Administrator and Samuel Ogbuku the Managing Director of the NDDC because of his favorable disposition.

Otuaro asked the populace to exercise patience with Tinubu as he has started implementing changes under his Renewed Hope Agenda to revitalize the Nigerian economy and expedite Niger Delta development.

He reaffirmed his demand that the Niger Delta remain a safe and secure region and exhorted young people to avoid the planned August 1 national rallies, saying they shouldn’t allow any group of people to make them return to the ways of the past.

Otuaro pointed out that the President was giving the Program a lot of support in order for it to fulfill its mandate for the area.

He noted that the PAP has created a program to empower the more than 1,000 adolescents who had been involved this year in accordance with this.

According to the program’s education policy, he said, the Office would expand the number of scholarship recipients to allow 500 Niger Delta students to enroll in university courses.

In order to better connect with the women in the area, Otuaro revealed that the PAP prioritizes women in its stakeholders policy. She also mentioned that the Office would host a women’s conference soon.

PAP is ready to work with the interventionist agency, he said, and he praised the NDDC for setting up the sensitization conference.

He said, “The government of President Bola Tinubu is a youth-friendly government, and he really loves the Niger Delta. I was at the NDDC before he appointed me to head the Presidential Amnesty Programme Office. And Samuel Ogbuku is the Managing Director of the NDDC.

“Therefore, it is time for us to own the administration of Tinubu. Let us not join the protests. We need to be patient with him for his reforms to materialize. Nobody should make us to go back to the old ways.

“This year in the PAP, we have a programme to empower over 1000 of our youths. In education, we are going to expand scholarship to 500 beneficiaries of the PAP scholarship scheme.

“For our women, they are our priority. We have had stakeholders meeting with ex-agitators, we are also going to hold another meeting involving women only. In that meeting, our women will articulate their issues. I will not impose anything on our women. The meeting will cut across the Niger Delta. We will partner with the NDDC, we already have the manpower.”

Dignitaries in attendance included Senate President Godswill Akpabio; Benjamin Kalu, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives; Senator Asuquo Ekpenyong, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs; Emmanuel Ibok Essien, National Chairman of PANDEF; Prof. Benjamin Okaba, President of the Ijaw National Congress; Jonathan Lokpobiri, President of the Ijaw Youth Council; AnnKio Briggs, a female activist from the Niger Delta; Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo; and Ayiri Emami, the Ologbotsere of Warri Kingdom among others.