Following fears of a repeat of the violence witnessed during the botched December 5 and 6 governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, the state police command has summoned ex-militant leaders to a security stakeholders’ meeting in the state.
Southern Ijaw council had the highest concentration of militant camps at the height of youth restiveness in the Niger Delta and it was a theatre of violence during the December 5 and 6 governorship poll, a development that prompted the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to cancel the exercise.
The rescheduled poll for the council and some units in the other seven local government areas is slated for January 9.
The security stakeholders meeting slated for today, according the letter of invitation dated December 31, 2015, was summoned by the command through the office of the State Intelligence Bureau led by Ondo Gbekumo.
The invitation letter, with reference number AB: 3422:BYS/SIB/Vol.6/83, stated that attendance to the meeting by ex-militant leaders was mandatory as issues bordering on threats to security in the January 9, election would be discussed.
It was gathered that some of the ex-militant leaders invited include, Mr Eris Paul popularly known as General Ogunboss, Africanus Ukparisia known as General Africa among others.
Some of the ex-militant leaders, it was however, gathered have expressed lack of confidence in the State Police Command structure.
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