Tag: Bayelsa Election

Bayelsa Election: Protesters Storm Police Headquarters, Demand CP Removal

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Story by Elizabeth Vincent/ Yenagoa Hundreds of women on Thursday, besieged the headquarters of the Bayelsa State Police Command, demanding the redeployment of the Commissioner of Police, CP, Tolani Alausa. The protesters, mostly dressed in black attires, also called on President Bola Tinubu and the inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to ensure a peaceful election in the state. The women displayed placards with inscriptions such as ‘IG- The Police must be neutral’, ‘Change CP Alausa for a violence free poll’, ‘We say No to CP Alausa’, and ‘Give us…

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Diri’s Fresh Plot To Destabilize Opu-Nembe Will Fail- Sylva

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Bayelsa State Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva, has alerted security agencies and members of the public of a fresh plot by the state Governor, Senator Douye Diri, to stoke fresh crisis in Opu-Nembe ahead of the November 11 governorship election. Sylva in a statement signed by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Julius Bokoru, said, “Diri had been the hand behind Opu-Nembe bloody crisis in the past two years.”According to Sylva, “The governor Diri had shown nothing but absolute disdain to the people of…

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