Colonel (retired) Paul Edor Obi was Administrator of Bayelsa State, Nigeria from July 1998 to May 1999 during the transitional regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar.
[6] The Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF) leaders described this as an "outright declaration of war on the Ijaws".
The curfew was lifted on 4 January 1999 after the government "deployed warships and more troops in Niger Delta areas to quell violent protests by restive Ijaw youths".
He said the Federal Government wanted to help develop the state, and urged the people to "embrace the path of peace and dialogue at all times".
[8] He handed over to the elected civilian governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic on 29 May 1999.