Sadly, no one has yet begun this appraisal of the reasons for the failure so that appropriate lessons will be learnt should another opportunity arise in the future. Where any analysis has been made, it did not go beyond lamentation and hand-wringing as to how the North had “betrayed” its former(?) natural allies in the South South and how former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, is being persecuted, how former Bayelsa State Governor, DSP Alamieyeseigha, was allegedly hounded to his death and how President Jonathan’s legacy is being deliberately rubbished
Browsing: Seriake Dickson
A statement issued on Friday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said Dickson has no hand in Sylva’s rejection by the people as expressed through several media onslaughts against his candidacy, sponsored by aggrieved members of his party, the APC
The Peoples Democratic Party-led Bayelsa State Government on Thursday assured the All Progressives Congress in the state of adequate security…
Iworiso-Markson pointed out that the attribution of the reshufflement to the rift between the governor and the President was a deliberate propagation of falsehood and the handiwork of mischief makers
Disclosing this at a press briefing in Lagos, the state Commissioner of Trade, Industry and Investment, Barrister Kemela Okara, said the Forum was in line with the present administration’s economic blueprint of a private sector driven economy
The governor said the development was due to the ongoing re-organisation of government Ministries, Departments and Agencies for optimal implementation of the state’s Restoration Agenda
The victim, Mr Tonye Okio, spent Christmas in detention with hardened criminals, denied access to his family
His arrest and detention is sequel to a criminal complaint lodged at the office of the state Commissioner of Police by Dickson that Okio had defamed him by putting out a publication on Facebook that a governor in the South South region was arrested abroad for money laundering
The MBGN event, which was held at the Banquet Hall of the Bayelsa State Government House in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, on Saturday was keenly contested by 32 contestants drawn from all parts of the country
The police spokesperson said the unit would however begin investigation as soon as it receives a report, to ensure the Special Adviser was freed
The statement said: “His Excellency, Governor Seriake Dickson expresses confidence in the ability of Chief Ikiogha to transform the liaison office to match its new status
According to him, efforts are underway to resolve the present crisis and that a new forum will collaborate with the Federal Government in moving the country forward
It held that in most localities the exercise did not commence until the third day due to nonpayment of enumerators’ allowances, stressing that it was impossible for the state to be covered in four days