A bloody clash was averted on Saturday by the police in Yenagoa, Bayelsa
State, following failed attempts by a former militant leader and Niger Delta
activist, Asari Dokubo, to hold an expanded inaugural meeting in support of
Biafra.
It was gathered that the Chairman of Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), Central
Zone, Kennedy Olorogun, got wind of the Biafran meeting and mobilized his
executive council members and other youths to the venue of the gathering.
Olorogun was said to be angry that Dokubo chose Bayelsa, a homogeneous Ijaw
state, to hold such meeting and ordered the founder of the Niger Delta Peoples
Volunteer Force (NDPVF) to leave the state or face the wrath of the youths.
It was learnt that Dokubo, who recently declared his support for the
actualisation of Biafra, gathered over 300 persons from across the states in
the South-East and South-South to hold the meeting.
The meeting was reportedly convened under the auspices of the Biafra
National Council (BNC) and not the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Confirming the development, Olorogun said over 300 persons including Dokubo
were already gathered at a hotel in Yenagoa when he led Ijaw youths to the
place.
He said quarrel ensued between him and Dokubo when he told the former
militant leader that the meeting would not hold in Ijawland.
