The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has cautioned against an alleged plot by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest former President Goodluck Jonathan warning that such move will spell doom for the country.

Speaking at a press conference to mark the end of the burial programme of the late former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, the IYC President, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, said almost everybody that had a close relationship with the former president had been arrested by the EFCC.

The IYC president particularly condemned the recent arrest and detention of Jonathan’s cousin, Mr Robert Azibola, a contractor over an alleged $40million financial fraud.

Eradiri said Ijaw youths would not allow Azibola, Jonathan or any rising Ijaw leader to be persecuted by the EFCC the way the Federal Government dealt with the late Alamieyeseigha.

He said, ‘They have arrested almost all our people. Azibola was arrested by the EFCC and we are calling on the EFCC to stop persecuting him further and charge him to court if there are issues.