Dickson, the incumbent senator polled a total of 57 votes to be declared winner of the election and also emerged as the PDP consensus candidate after the withdrawal of his main opponent Donald Daunemigha.
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Former governor of Bayelsa State and senator representing Bayelsa West in the National Assembly, Henry Seriake Dickson, has risen stoutly in defence of the embattled national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, saying he cannot be removed whimsically or be asked to resign for no just cause.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba.
Apere, was arraigned alongside Rollins Allison Amacree, Clever Loveday and a company: Oriazy Global Link Limited, before Justice Jane E. Inyang of the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on a 10-count charge bordering on alleged conspiracy and procurement fraud to the tune of N864,104 million.
Alaibe said the success of the party and all the candidates — from chairmanship to the councillorship — is another proof that Bayelsa people have come to a common agreement that only the PDP-powered government can deliver satisfactorily on the dividends of democracy.
Bayelsa came behind Rivers and Delta in the report launched on Tuesday in Abuja by BudgiT, a budget transperency advocacy group.
The governor in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media Relations, Fidelis Soriwei, said it was pertinent for the presidential aspirants to avoid the use of words that could inflict injury on party cohesion and its strength as the country moves closer to the 2019 elections
Tambuwal said that the Governor of Bayelsa State, the Henry Seriake Dickson, approached him in the heat of the tension that followed the incapacitation and death of former President Umaru Yar’Adua, in 2010, to work out the process that culminated in the emergence of Jonathan as Acting President.
Dickson also expressed shock that the President has failed to take any drastic action against leaders of the All Progressives Congress and their allies who cause mayhem in the state despite making several reports and complaints to him and the security agencies.
According to Dickson, Buhari’s comment that those pushing for the restructuring of the country were motivated by selfish interests was very unpresidential.
The monarch, who received Dickson in his palace in Ile-Ife, Osun State, said the governor remained an epitome of humility, good leadership and positive virtues.
The governor in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Francis Ottah Agbo, said Dickson made the remarks when Adedoja visited him in Abuja to thank him for his reconciliation efforts in the PDP.
The governor in a statement by his Special Adviser (Media Relations), Francis Agbo, regretted that the misinterpretation of the reporter from NAN has elicited the reaction of Prince Dayo Adeyeye
Although they both declined interview with journalists, sources said the meeting of the two PDP stalwarts was in connection with the peace and reconciliation effort currently embarked upon by the governor
According to Dickson, the former lawmaker, who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, has exhibited “poor understanding of the workings of government
Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has enjoined Muslim faithful in the country to continue to live in peace…