Bayelsa APC petitions Buhari to restrain Dickson

The leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC), in Bayelsa state, yesterday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to wade into the harassment and intimidation meted on its members by the current governor of the state, Governor Seriake Dickson.

They also maintained that the governor is putting undue pressure on the management of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to withdraw contracts awarded to members of the party, noting that Dickson’s action is to deliberately create crisis in the state.

In a petition, signed and issued in Yenagoa, by the state APC Chairman, Mr. Jothan Amos and Secretary Alabo Martins, the party said “Only last week, the state Assembly invited one of our members whose company works for AGIP, to appear before it on allegations of breeching peace in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state”.