Mr Timi Alaibe, the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP,  in Bayelsa  State has raised alarm on plans to arrest and try him over the attacks in his country home, Opokuma, Bayelsa State, on January 8. Mr Douye Diri, the spokesman  of the Timi Alaibe Campaign Organisation, in a statement, explained that there were plots to upturn the report of the police investigation on the series of  attacks on him and his supporters by some hoodlums.

The statement noted that “we have been reliably informed that the Bayelsa State government is already shopping for Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, whose brief will be to lead the prosecution team against Alaibe”

The “doctored police report”, Duoye alleged, had been skewed to give the impression that the attacks on Alaibe and his supporters on two occasions, were as a result of clashes between rival cult groups, and “so there are plots to try him for facilitating the murder of the victims of the attacks.” He stressed that “nothing can be farther from truth than this.”

Alaibe’s home was first attacked on November12 at about 2 am with a security personnel  killed by the attackers and parts of the house bombed and ransacked. Some suspects have since been arrested. Again, another of  group of attackers struck on a day Alaibe formally returned to the state to further his gubernatorial quest.

Again, six of his supporters including a blood relation were killed right in his compound by men who came fully armed  with assault and lethal weapons. Men of the Joint Task force later intercepted the attackers who were escaping in two buses after the attack.

The Police, since the incident, have been investigating the attack .

But Duoye asked: “how can a man who suffered such great and needless loss of his supporters and relations now be presented as the assailant?” stressing that it will be interesting to know what will be done to those arrested around the scene of the attack.  He expressed confidence that the “ judiciary is still a respected arm of government which cannot yield itself to the pursuit of the travesty of justice by desperate and frightened politicians.”