Dokubo says opposition jittery of Buhari’s achievement

• Denies sponsoring thugs to attack PDP

SPECIAL Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Prof. Charles Dokubo, has said that verbal missiles fired at him by opposition elements were expected, considering President Muhammadu Buhari’s rising popularity in the Niger Delta region.

“The Niger Delta people are with President Buhari because they have been reaping from the amnesty programme since I came on board. With Mr. President’s support and determination, we were able to commission a world-class vocational training centre for our beneficiaries at AgadagbaObon, Ondo State recently,” Dokubo said.

He debunked claims in the social media linking him to sponsorship of political thugs ahead of the botched presidential and National Assembly elections of February 16.

A Facebook user had, at the weekend, alleged that thugs aided by Dokubo attacked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Abonnema, Akuku-toru Council of Rivers State, few hours to the postponement of the elections.

But the presidential aide dismissed the allegation as bare-faced falsehood con - cocted by vicious merce - naries of the PDP to mis - chievously draw sympathy and incite vulnerable youths in the area to unleash mayhem in the area, in the face of its immi- nent defeat.

Dokubo stated that he was at Abonnema, his hometown, on the eve of the election to cast his vote, and had no business with any political thug.

“I arrived Abonnema on Friday evening to enable me cast my vote the next day, before the election was postponed. But I was shocked when my attention was drawn to a post on social media alleging that I aided thugs to attack the PDP secretariat at Abonnema.