Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, has raised the alarm about a plot to breach the peace in the state. Diri, who warned that the state government would not condone any act that would disrupt the peace of the state, advised security commanders, youths, elders and traditional rulers to be on the alert.
  
The governor said this yesterday at separate meetings with the Bayelsa Elders Council and at the 37th session of the state security council.  He warned that a planned mega rally and inauguration of a group loyal to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, was capable of igniting an avoidable crisis in the state. 
   
Diri noted that a suspended member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), George Turner, had been enlisted to create factions in the party in the state.   The governor also stated that holding such an event at a time when the political crisis in Rivers State had heightened ethnic tensions could degenerate into conflict in the state. He further stated that the alarm was imperative given that the FCT minister had threatened to cause a crisis in PDP-governed states in the country.

He said, “Any attempt to import the Rivers State political crisis into Bayelsa will be resisted.
   
“I urge security commanders in the state to be on the alert. Parents and traditional rulers should discourage their wards and children from being used by unscrupulous elements to cause trouble in the state.”
  
Diri, who insisted that the peaceful disposition of the Ijaws should not be misconstrued for cowardice, said the state would not allow a faceless group to foment trouble in Bayelsa, which is the homeland of all Ijaw people.