Following last week’s violence that erupted in Opokuma, the country home of the erstwhile Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC) and gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Timi Alaibe, a group has alleged that it has uncovered plans to indict him over the killings of two of his supporters by the gunmen.

Making this known in a statement signed by Douye Diri, the Timi Alaibe Campaign Organisation said there was an underground plan to arrest Alaibe adding that some people have been paid to mount pressure on the government to set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry.

The Statement reads in part, “it has been gathered that one these groups and persons, who have since been paid handsomely for the project, intensify their calls, the state Government would proceed to set up a so-called Judicial Commission of Inquiry which it would task to indict Chief Alaibe at all cost, and consequently move for his arrest and prosecution over the attacks on his own home and supporters”.

The ploy, according to the political group, is aimed at diverting the attention of security agencies from the alleged State Government’s involvement in the dastardly murder of innocent supporters of Chief Alaibe in Opokuma last Friday.

Meanwhile, many have not stopped wondering how the Bayelsa State Government came into the hurried conclusion, less than 24 hours after the sad event, that it was a clash of rival cult groups invited to welcome Chief Alaibe’s home.

The question has, therefore, been “why is the Bayelsa State Government bent on preempting and prejudicing investigations?”

Even when it is conceded tht it is the duty.

According to the organization, the attack “is only a feeble attempt to intimidate and scare the long suffering people of Bayelsa State, who are clearly resolute in their determination to put a new government in place in the state by May 2011.

“The truth is that the current leadership in Bayelsa State is drowning and it is prepared to cling to straw to stay afloat. The regime’s trump card is violence and more violence”, the organization continued.

Meanwhile, the growing trend of violent activities in the state, which started last year with the bombings in Yenagoa, and later destruction of prominent people’s homes in different locations and stoning at campaign rallies culminating in killings, has now become a source of worry to many Bayelsans.

According to a statement made available to The Tide via e-mail, and signed by the State Commissioner of Information, Hon. Nath Egba, there was relative peace in the state until Mr. Alaibe’s governorship ambition became public knowledge, just as was the case in 2003, when he sought to intimidate Dr. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha from the governorship position before he was defeated at the primaries.

The statement, therefore, appealed to politicians in the state to imbibe democratic culture by allowing the people to be the ultimate deciders of who gets what.