The Presidential Amnesty Programme,PAP, has retracted its earlier position that Joshua Maciver, the Deputy Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives
Congress,APC, in Bayelsa State was not registered as one of the beneficiaries of the amnesty and unconditional pardon granted Niger Delta ex-agitators by the Federal Government.
He said after thorough investigation and diligent scrutiny, PAP discovered that Maciver, who is a running mate to the APC Governorship Candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, is among ex-agitators that received presidential pardon from the late President Musa Yar’Adua. “Upon thorough investigation, we have identified an oversight in our records regarding Mr.Joshua Maciver’s PAP beneficiary status. It has now been established that Mr. MacIver received an unconditional pardon from the Late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
It was gathered that the clarification shocked the camp of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its governorship candidate, Governor Douye Diri, who had depended on the initial letter to institute an ongoing disqualification suit against the Sylva/MacIver ticket of the APC.
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