Professor Charles Quakers Dokubo, the former Niger Delta Amnesty boss, has reportedly passed away after a brief illness.

Dokubo, 70, died on Wednesday night in a hospital in Abuja, Vanguard Newspaper reports.

Before his demise, Dokubo was appointed as a Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on the Presidential Amnesty Programme in 2018.

However, he was unceremoniously suspended from office in February 2020.

He was a Director at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, before his appointment by Buhari.

Dokubo was born on March 23, 1952. He hailed from Abonema in the Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.