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The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon Seriake Dickson, has called the the All Progressives Congress (APC), governorship candidates and his deputy as militants, terrorists, cultists and criminals. He emphasized that the APC government after five years at the centre has done nothing in the state but to promote violence in different communities, adding that the consequences of losing election to the ...

Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa has warned the Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, to use his position to attract development to the state and not use ‘federal might’ to cause violence during the Nov. 16 governorship election. Dickson stated this on Monday in Yenagoa during the official flag-off of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship campaign in ...

Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to give minister-designate, Timipre Sylva, a grade A ministry. substantive and grade A ministerial portfolio in the interest of the state. Dickson, during a live media chat at the Government House in Yenagoa, said Sylva should not be a junior minister, popularly called minister for state. The governor, who ...

Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa on Monday heeded to public outcry and declined assent to the bill seeking life pension for the state lawmakers as canvassed by the state House of Assembly. The 24-member legislature dominated by 22 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members on April 24 hurriedly passed the proposed pension bill for current and past members. The Bill proposed ...

Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, and Gov. Seriake Dickson have continued to trade blames over the current security challenges in Bayelsa. Dickson had on Friday accused Lokpobiri and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of being the masterminds of election violence in the state. But Lokpobiri, in a statement signed by his Special ...

One person died while two others were injured when thugs attacked members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at a rally in Sagbama area of Bayelsa. A resident in Sagbama Local Government Area who witnessed the incident said about 15 thugs used dangerous weapons to disperse people at the event. The intervention of the police prevented the situation from degenerating ...

The Chairman of  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Walid Jibrin on Tuesday, said that the party was working to present the best Presidential candidate from the North in 2019. Jibrin stated this when he received members of “PDP Ward2Ward Group” who paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja. He said the party’s leadership in the North had ...

Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson, has advised leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to see the party’s National Convention on Saturday as an end but a means to regain power in 2019. Dickson gave the advice when he received one of the National Chairmanship aspirants of the party, Raymond Dokpesi, at Government House, Yenagoa. According to him, the major ...