For the Bayelsa West Senatorial District election scheduled for October 31, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bayelsa State Chapter, has given ex-Governor Seriake Dickson an automatic ticket. As gathered by Daily Times, this was made known by Chief Solomon Agwanana, the State Chairman of PDP at Yenogoa on Tuesday. Agwanana said the people had implicit […]
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has waded into the dispute between Govs. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa and Nyesom Wike of Rivers over oil. The party disclosed this in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Monday in Abuja. Ologbondiyan said that the national leadership of the […]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the Soku Oil Wells belong to the Government and People of Rivers State as the Federal High Court affirmed and based on the admission by the National Boundary Commission that it erroneously shifted the boundary between Rivers and Bayelsa States from River Santa Barbara to River […]
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipreye Sylva has `thanked’ Gov. Serike Dickson of Bayelsa for making it much easier for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), David Lyon, to win the Nov. 16 election. He disclosed this after presenting the Bayelsa Governor-elect, David Lyon, to President Muhammadu Buhari at […]
Abuja – The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipreye Sylva has `thanked’ Gov. Serike Dickson of Bayelsa for making it much easier for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), David Lyon, to win the Nov. 16 election. He disclosed this after presenting the Bayelsa Governor-elect, David Lyon, to President Muhammadu […]
Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa voted at Polling Unit 005, Ward 2, Toru-Orua community, Sagbama Local Government Area of the state, alleging that the All Progressives Congress of working with security agencies to hijack voting materials. He said after voting that security agencies had aided the APC to move voting materials meant for Nembe and […]
Yenagoa – Mr Kenedy Tonjo-West, Senior Special Adviser to Bayelsa Governor on Niger Delta Youth Matters, has resigned his appointment, few days to the Saturday governorship election in the state. In a letter dated Nov. 13 and addressed to Gov. Seriake Dickson on Wednesday, Tonjo-West did not give reasons for leaving government, but expressed appreciation […]
Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson has warned against the imposition of candidates by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the party’s forthcoming national convention, saying that such an act will tear the party apart and lead to another round of crises within the party. Governor Dickson disclosed this in a statement on […]
Findings have shown the reasons why the Supreme Court sacked former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and few others chieftains of the party shunned the special non-elective convention of the party held at the Eagle Square in Abuja, on Saturday. Also conspicuously absent at the convention, which was […]
There was celebration galore in the camp of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyal to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa following the judgment of an Abuja High Court which upheld the suspension of the party’s chairman in the state, Col. Sam Inokoba (Rtd). However, while the Dickson camp is celebration, the camp loyal to the […]
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has declared Friday, March 27, a work free day to enable eligible voters travel to their communities in the remote riverine areas and other distant parts of the State in readiness for the Presidential and National Assembly polls on Saturday, 28thof March. Governor Dickson, who made the declaration […]