PDP protests as APC thugs unleash mayhem in Bayelsa, kill one

Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday raised the alarm about the violent attacks it claimed thugs allegedly sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) visited on its members in Kolokuma-Opkuma and Odi areas of the state leading to the death of one person.
Director of Publicity of the Restoration Campaign Organisation, Jonathan Obuebite, who made this known in a statement, said the attackers were dressed in army uniforms and had attempted to kidnap a PDP chieftain and owner of Watgo fuel station, Ogoriba Watson, in Kolokuma-Opokuma but failed in their mission.
He stated that the kidnap attempt was foiled by a police patrol which swiftly responded to a distress call which led to exchange of gun fire between the thugs and the police but sensing they were overwhelmed, the thugs resorted to shooting sporadically to escape and in the process, a woman leader of the PDP in that ward was shot.
According to the statement, the woman whose name was given as Mrs. Ayokpo Okringbo was rushed to the hospital but later died.
Obuebite said the incident happened in Odi at 4.30 am.
He said that the terror activities of the APC and its agents were designed to scare people from going out to vote but they will fail because the voters were determined to express their convictions at the election by voting for the PDP.
While condemning the alleged terror act, he called on security agencies to check the excesses of the APC and its penchant to resort to violence and brigandage.
“APC’s actions have clearly shown that they are not prepared for the election. It is true that all they are out to do is to unleash mayhem which will result in the outright cancellation of the election but we hope that the security agencies are on top of the situation”.
Obuebite commended the gallantry of the police officers for successfully foiling the kidnap attempt and called on the Inspector General of Police to take urgent steps to deploy superior intelligence in tracking the movement of criminal elements who, he accused, were hell-bent in derailing the electoral process.
“Bayelsa is under siege at the moment. APC thugs have taken over the entire state. The police authorities must move with speed and apply superior intelligence to fish out these criminal elements before they truncate this election”, he stated.