Niger Delta women groups drawn from various ethnic nationalities in the region have declared that they would not be part of the planned October 1 nationwide protest.

The women who stormed Warri on Wednesday on a stakeholders? engagement forum also pledged their full support for the administration of President Bola Tinubu.

The event with the theme: Niger Delta Women: Empowerment as a Panacea for Peace, Stability and Economic Growth?, was convened by the office of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP).

Arising from the parley, the women lamented that many self-interested bodies were currently going about with ulterior motives asking people to do negative things.

Recall that the gathering was in continuation of the expanded Niger Delta Stakeholders meeting of women groups and youth bodies.

Community leaders, opinion leaders, elders, traditional rulers and camp leaders organised by the PAP office.

While urging their wards to shun the imminent planned protest, the women also tasked members to discourage their children from participating in future uprising against the constituted authorities.

They pleaded with Nigerians to allow the Tinubu-led administration to address the multi-faceted challenges facing the country.

The women lauded President Tinubu?s administration for supporting women and youths in the Niger Delta region.

According to them, when you appoint the right people into the right positions, then you start seeing positive results.

Mrs Beauty Warejuowei, a woman leader in the Niger Delta who read the communique of the parley to newsmen, urged women in the region to stand firm and make the best use of the opportunities given them by the authorities.

She noted that this would give government the encouragement to do even more.

?Niger Delta region has been having PAP Coordinators before now, but this is the time we can say the right people have been appointed to the right position,? Warejuowei said.

Addressing the women, Dr Dennis Otuaro, the Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) commended them for their unalloyed support for the current administration.

Dr Otuaro who acknowledged the roles of the women in sustaining peace in the Niger Delta, noted that the destiny of the region was in the hands of women.

?We have to do it together. Talking peace in the Niger Delta, it is our women that are sustaining the peace. The destiny of the Niger Delta is in the hands of women,? he said.

The PAP boss said that the economic challenges in the country were temporal and urged the women to continue to support the various socio-economic initiatives of the President Tinubu?s administration.

He, however, assured the women of sustainable empowerment, vocational trainings, grants and scholarships to further add value to their lives.

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