ODAHIEKWU OGUNDE, Yenagoa
A coalition of ex-agitators and peace advocate groups in the Niger Delta have condemned the calls by some persons in the region urging President Muhammadu Buhari to remove the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, Engr. Simbi Wabote over alleged perjury.
Some persons had alleged last week that Wabote breached the Code of Conduct for public officers and thereby asked the President to remove him from office.
In a statement on Monday by the National Coordinator, Niger Delta Advocate for Peace and Good Governance, ‘General’ Fiawei Pathfinder, Coordinator, Ex-Militants Support Group for President Muhammadu Buhari, ‘General’ Peres Ayama, and Deputy National Coordinator, Niger Delta Advocate for Peace and Good Governance, Comrade Bekes Apere, strongly condemned those behind the calls.
The coalition said the people of the region reposed much confidence in Wabote as a proud son of the Ijaw nation and one of the shining lights of the region.
The coalition also said they had collectively sent a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari not to listen to the blackmailers, stressing that it was their lifestyle to extort money from public officers.
They said: “We have written to President Muhammadu Buhari and drawn his attention to the rising attempt by some disgruntled criminal elements to rubbish his administration by several attempts to blackmail one of his appointees who is performing very well in his position.
“We have notified Mr President of the activities of some mischief makers and blackmailers whose stock in trade is to cook up unfounded stories in order to frame up political appointees with scandalous allegations with no proof so as to extort millions of dollars from public office holders.”
