N-Delta Stakeholders: Ndiomu has overstayed his welcome as PAP boss, must go

Some Niger Delta stakeholders, comprising former freedom fighters, youth groups and opinion leaders, on Friday, called for an end to the tenure of Major General Barry Ndiomu (retd) as interim administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP. The youths, in a statement, insisted that Ndiomu had overstayed his welcome in the amnesty office and needed to be shown the way out in the interest of the scheme and that of the peace of the Niger Delta. Coming under the umbrella of the Coalition of Niger Delta Patriots, they said Ndiomu ought to have left the office since March 31, 2023, when his tenure expired.

They urged the Federal Government to hasten and throw him out of the office.

President-General of the group, Ambassador Theo Whiskey and the Secretary-General, Chief Timipre Ambaowei said: “Ndiomu should not take our silence for stupidity. He has wreaked the amnesty programme and made nonsense of the dreams of the founding fathers of PAP. He is dancing on the grave of those who died in the course of the struggle. His time is up and he must leave now.

“He was appointed to be in office for six months. His administration is a waste. He knows very little or nothing about the genesis and objectives of the amnesty programme and that explains why he is not relating well with the authentic stakeholders, including the repentant former militants.

“It is even laughable that some people considered to be on his pay roll are trying to bend the hand of the federal government and secure a re-appointment for the interim administrator.

“It will not work. The plot is dead on arrival as we will resist any attempt to retain Ndiomu in office.” Vanguard