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From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa
The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, has urged the people of the Niger Delta to support the re-election of President Bola Tinubu.
According to him, President Tinubu deserves re-election for strongly supporting the agency’s recent deployment of its foreign post-graduate scholarship beneficiaries.
Otuaro, in a statement by his Special Assistant, Media, Mr Igoniko Oduma, said the PAP had, as at the last count, sent 161 post-graduate scholarship beneficiaries to universities in the U.K. for the 2025/2026 academic year.
The Amnesty boss, who also seized the opportunity to express gratitude to the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, for his invaluable input and guidance in the exercise, attributed the huge number of beneficiaries so far deployed abroad for studies in various industry-relevant programmes to the backing and generosity of the President.
He urged stakeholders of the Niger Delta to stand with President Tinubu and support his re-election bid in 2027.
Otuaro stressed that the President has demonstrated good intentions for the region and deserved reciprocal action in 2027.
He said the President was aware of the region’s challenge of the human capacity development gap and the need to close it, empower the people, and galvanise socio-economic growth and development in the area.
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According to him, the region’s human capital development gap can be increasingly closed if the huge deployment of scholarship beneficiaries within and outside the country is sustained.
“I am eternally grateful to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for graciously supporting the Presidential Amnesty Programme as we deploy foreign scholarship beneficiaries for the academic session.
“But for the President’s magnanimity, it would not have been possible for us to send 161 beneficiaries to universities in the U.K. The number is huge, and it aligns with His Excellency’s Renewed Hope Agenda and reflects his undying love for the Niger Delta.
“I am equally immensely thankful to the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, for his usual incredible guidance and supervision, which helps us a great deal.
“I am highly encouraged by the President’s backing of our formal education and vocational training initiatives, and his strong desire for the socio-economic growth and development of our region.
“I believe that if we sustain the high number of scholarship deployments within and outside the country, the issue of the human capacity development gap in our region will be decisively tackled.”
The PAP’s helmsman restated his call on all scholarship beneficiaries to make good use of the opportunity, complete their programmes successfully, and return home to add value to the development of the region and indeed the country.
