The Bayelsa State Police Command has dismissed reports indicating an attempt assassination on immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in his state.
Mr. Asinim Butswat, Bayelsa State Police Public Relations Officer, who clarified the situation few hours after the incident, stated the peddlers of the rumour were mischievous.
The former President was reported to have escaped attack from a gang suspected to be militants.
But according Butswat, a group of hungry youths mistook a convoy of the former President for one of the governorship candidate on electioneering ahead of the December 5 election .
He further explained that the youth traditionally followed the convoy, perhaps, for alms, only to discover it was that of Jonathan.
He stated on realising it was Jonathan’s convoy, the youths, who had followed him up to his house in Yenagoa, pulled back and ran away adding that security operatives ran after them and arrested some of them.
“There was no attack on the former President. The youths mistook his convoy for a governorship candidate engaged in campaigns.
“But when they discovered on getting to the entrance of his house in Yenagoa that it was that of the President, they ran away. Some of them were arrested.
“They did not haul stones at the President’s convoy. They did not attack the convoy and no weapon was found on them,” the police spokesman stated.