Exposed! Fresh Trouble Looms Ahead of the Gubernatorial Polls in Bayelsa

Seriake Dickson and Timipreye Sylva

Ahead of the January 9, 2016 supplementary governorship election in Bayelsa State, militants from Delta and Rivers states are regrouping to disrupt the electoral process, Sunday Punch has learnt.

It was learnt that an ex-militant leader from Delta State (name withheld) is said to be determined to scuttle the ambition of any other political party candidate except that of the Peoples Democratic Party.

It was further gathered that the ex-warlord had vowed that the opposition political party would not be allowed to take over the state of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

He was said to be assembling ‘deadly’ militants to attack the state again during the rerun on January 9, 2016.

The ex-militant leader was said to be the brain behind the widespread violence that swept across the state during the December 5 and 6, 2015 inconclusive election in the state.

The ex-militant commander reportedly organised the thugs and militants that attacked the home of the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri in Ekeremor and carried out other violent attacks on members of the All Progressives Congress in Nembe and other parts of the state.