Police stops pro-Jonathan rally over fear of attack

By Ehi Ekhator

Bayelsa State Police stopped a pro-Jonathan group rally yesterday due to the information that the group has been infiltrated by miscreants.

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Information gathered revealed that the group, New Dawn Initiative Development is comprises of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP members who are loyalists of one of the President’s aide.

A source told this medium (not NAIJA CENTER NEWS) “, “The rally by the New Dawn group was to kick start series of programme and activities targeted at the grassroots so that the message would gain attention ahead of  the 2015 election as well as provide a message loud enough to reverberate in Aso Villa to the hearing of our President that his people earnestly yearns for him to continue the good work he has started through the vehicle of this well thought out transformation agenda.”

The rally was to be held at Opolo Secondary School ground in Yenagoa, but was put on hold by the police base on the information they gathered concerning a plan by a group  to cause problems at the venue.

The police Commission of Police, Mr. Hilary Opara revealed in a statement that the police had to stop the rally because of the intelligence report that some group had planned to attack and disturb the rally.

The statement reads, “This is to inform the general public that Bayelsa State Police Command has directed the members of the group known as New Dawn Initiative Development to reschedule their rally billed to take place at Opolo Secondary School, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State today.

”This was premised on the intelligence to the command that a splinter group had perfected plans to attack and disrupt the rally which could lead to breach of peace, coupled with the fact that the police did observe the actual gathering of the mob at the venue.”

 

Police stops pro-Jonathan rally over fear of attack