Bayelsa state police commissioner, Mr. Valentine NtomChukwu, has warned any person or group of persons that have no lawful business in the state to stay away in their own interest.
He issued the warning on Thursday, January 22, 2015 over purported plans by some hoodlums from within and outside the state to wreck havoc and cause total breakdown of law and order during the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential campaign rally in Yenagoa on February 5, 2015.
He said: “The attention of the Bayelsa state police command has been drawn to a publication in the media that the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, will be disgraced if she attends the PDP presidential rally in Yenagoa.
“I want to warn such groups, especially the so called Bayelsa Youth Vanguard and Mangrove Boys of Bayelsa, to desist from making such provocative and inciting publications likely to threaten the existing peace currently being enjoyed by Bayelsans as the police will not hesitate to deal decisively according to extant laws any such groups when arrested.”
“The police will provide adequate security for the First Lady and other political groups that want to visit Bayelsa for political rallies, campaigns or legitimate businesses.”
According to reports, two groups, Bayelsa Youth Vanguard, BYV, and Mangrove Boys of Bayelsa, MBB, had threatened to attack the first Lady if she comes to Bayelsa with her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan, during the presidential rally as a result of her alleged plan to embarrass the state governor during the campaign.
However, Bayelsa state government, in a statement by the chief press secretary to the governor, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, has described the threat to the First Lady as irrelevant and as such should not be taken serious.
