The Bayelsa State Police Command has debunked reports making the rounds that former President Goodluck Jonathan was attacked in his home State of Bayelsa.

Social media has been abuzz with news of an attack on the former president’s convoy.

Police Public Relations Officer, Asinim Butswat said the peddlers of the rumor are a band of mischief makers.

Butswat explained that a group of hungry youths mistook a convoy of the former President for one of the governorship candidates soliciting for votes ahead of the December 5 election.

The PPRO said the youths traditionally followed the convoy, perhaps, for alms, only to discover it was that of Jonathan, according to The Punch account of the story.

He said on realizing it was Jonathan’s convoy, the youths, who had followed him up to his house in Yenagoa, pulled back and ran away.

He added that security operatives ran after them and arrested some of them.

The police spokesman said, “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 hurl stones at the President’s convoy. They did not attack the convoy and no weapon was found on them.”