JUST IN: Ijaw youths stop Asari Dokubo from holding Biafran meeting in Bayelsa - The Nation Newspaper

It was gathered that the Chairman of Ijaw Youths Council , 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 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 and not the Indigenous People of Biafra .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.“They tried to resist us but we told them we were prepared for them because we will not allow any part of Bayelsa to be used for a meeting calling for the actualisation of Biafra.“It was getting out of hand but the police intervened to stop possible violence. My happiness is that we stopped the meeting from holding”.

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