The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide, critical stakeholders and other leaders in the Niger Delta region have said there was no time they passed a vote of no confidence in the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme and Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Prof. Charles Dokubo.
They insisted that a report suggesting that such development took place was false and should be ignored by members of the public.
They made the clarification in a joint statement signed by the National Spokesman of the IYC, Daniel Dasimaka, Niger Delta Working Group, Akwa-Cross Youth Coalition for Peaceful Nigeria, (ACYCPN), MEINBUTUS, Coalition of Ijaw Leaders (COIL) and the Niger Deltans for Accountability and Good Governance (NDAGG).
They appealed to the general public to disregard a statement purportedly made by the President of IYC, Oweilaemi Pereotubo, saying he only expressed his personal opinion.
The leaders and groups noted that the National Executive Council (NEC) of IYC, leaders of the Niger Delta region and other critical stakeholders never met at any time to take make the ungodly statement expressed by Pereotubo against the PAP Coordinator.
The leaders said: โThe purported statement represents the personal opinion and views of the National President who was acting as a loner and not in the collective interests of the Ijaw youths and the Ijaw Nation in general.
โThe general public should be mindful of these conflict entrepreneurs. The vision of Dokubo is at variance with the old order which has led to his continuous resistance. If they have had the best solutions, why is there no permanent solutions to the regionโs problems.
โWe make bold to say that the region is satisfied with the performance of Dokubo and we urge President Mohammed Buhari to retain him in the new cabinet.
โTo say that the Ijaws have taken such position is nonsense. IYC is happy with the gains the PAP has made by sustaining the empowerment program, training and the lasting peace we enjoy in the region, which we hope to take advantage of rather than casting selfish aspersions and trying to pull down a worthy son of the Niger Delta region.
โWe appeal to Nigerians to disregard the purported statement credited to IYC President as the statement represents the opinion of the author and his cohortsโ.
