A member of the APC in Southern Ijaw LGA of Bayelsa State, Independent Famgbei has raised his disapproval over APC planned protest, aimed at causing instability and unrest in the Bayelsa State.
In a statement he made available to the media on Tuesday in Bayelsa State, Independent Famgbei further said that APC Youths are already sounding drums of war and the good and peace loving people of Bayelsa are becoming apprehensive.
Excerpt is the full text of the statement;
I am told of a planned protest by my party and i must express my disapproval.
Reports reaching me is that the planned protest is actually a plot to cause instability and unrest in the state.
The recent activities of my party supporters in the state reveals that the intentions of these young people is not to have a peaceful protest but an opportunity to revenge, destroy houses and properties belonging to members of the other party in the state, disrupt business activities, loot stores and shops, harass their owners and all those going about their lawful businesses, interrupt school activities and shot down every means of transportation in and out of the state.
They have purposed to go to any length to distort the peace Bayelsans have enjoyed since the inauguration of Senator Douye Diri and his deputy.
Though a member of APC Bayelsa, I must state here that supporters of my party have shown times without number that they are violence prone and must therefore be stopped.
Bayelsans including my humble self have long accepted the outcome of the elections and normalcy has since been restored until the announcement of this planed protest.
These youths are already sounding drums of war and the good and peace loving people of Bayelsa are becoming apprehensive.
I therefore use this opportunity to call on the security agents to look deeper as their custom is to see the true intent of the APC Bayelsa supporters and avert the impending episode of violence.
This is also a call on the APC leadership both at the national and state level to behave responsibly and call their supporters to order.
Bayelsa is peaceful and the people prefer it so. I expect that my party leaders should follow the peaceful path and seek redress at the appropriate quarters and not the way of violence.
I remain Independent Famgbei, APC member, Southern Ijaw LGA.
