The Bayelsa State Police Command on Monday debunked reports that former President Goodluck Jonathan was attacked in the state.The state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Butswat Asinim, who spoke to The Nation, said persons peddling the rumour were mischievous.Asinim said a group of hungry youths mistook a convoy of the former President for one of the governorship candidates in the state.
The PPRO, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said the youths traditionally followed the convoy, perhaps, for alms, only to discover it belonged to Jonathan.He said on realising it was Jonathan’s convoy, the youths who had followed him up to his house in Yenagoa, pulled back and took to their heels, adding that security operatives pursued and arrested some of them.