The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro, has urged the people of the Niger Delta to support the declaration of the leaders of the South-South All Progressives Congress (APC) to support President Bola Tinubu for a second term.
   
Otuaro spoke while reacting to the position of the South-South APC leaders and governors to adopt Tinubu as their sole candidate in the 2027 presidential election in an interview with a select journalists in Abuja yesterday.
   
Otuaro said that what the South-South APC leaders and the governors did was the right way to reward a sincere and committed leader who has shown, in practical terms, his love for the region and the people.
   
Leaders of the APC in Edo, Delta, Cross River and Akwa Ibom states, in collaboration with other members of the party in the South-South zone, had met in Benin on July 5, 2025, where they unanimously endorsed the President for a second term in office.
   
Otuaro noted that the President has proved beyond doubt his love and dedication to the affairs and development of the Niger Delta through strategic appointments, initiation of big-ticket projects, establishment of agencies and adequate funding of existing ones.
   
Otuaro said that the Niger Delta and, indeed, the South-South has fared well under the well-implemented Renewed Hope Agenda of the President.
   
He argued that a President who signed into law the bills establishing the Maritime University, Okerenkoroko, the Federal University of Environment and Technology in Ogoniland, the South-South Development Commission, and intensified support for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the PAP, means well for the region and deserves the peoples support in return.
   
Otuaro further said: “President Bola Tinubu has not hidden his intention to develop the South-South and the Niger Delta, which explains why he has given this level of attention to the Lagos-Calabar Expressway.
   
“I urge the South-South and the Niger Delta people to embrace the informed position of the APC leaders to sustain the region in the position to attract more development through a listening leader.”