A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress in Bayelsa, Chief Perekeme Kpodoh, has described as “unacceptable” the show of support by Governor Seriake Dickson toward the nomination and successful screening of Chief Timipre Sylva.
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Heineken’s name is among the list of 43 ministerial nominees transmitted by President Muhamadu Buhari to the National Assembly for confirmation.
Ahead of the November 2, 2019 Governorship Election in Bayelsa, a socio-political group, ‘Timipre Sylva Support Group’ has called on the former governor of the state to put himself forward under the platform of All Progressives Congress.
The Bayelsa State chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress have bickered on the recent comments of Chief Edwin Clark’s group on the outcome of the 2019 general elections.
The Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa has alleged that thugs led by an Oil Surveillance Contractor, Kodjo, operating at the behest of former Governor, Chief Timipre Sykva, have sacked the mobile policemen and operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp in Bassambiri, Nembe Local Government Area.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday restated his commitment towards infrastructural development in the Niger-Delta.
Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, and Governor Seriake Dickson have continued to trade blames over the current security challenges in Bayelsa.
The All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa on Monday staged a protest over alleged killing of its members ahead the general elections.
They were received into the PDP by the Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Sylva governed Bayelsa between 2008 and 2012 under the platform of the PDP, but joined the APC since 2014 upon the formation of the party.
The inauguration will be done as the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja by 12 noon
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP. Asinim Butswat, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa.
Bayelsa came behind Rivers and Delta in the report launched on Tuesday in Abuja by BudgiT, a budget transperency advocacy group.
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.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that Kpodo was, earlier on July 27, arraigned before a Magistrates’ court in Yenagoa for the same offence and was remanded in prison custody till Aug. 10 for ruling on his bail application.
The accused was charged with unlawfully detaining one Teke Blessing on June 20 at Etegwe, Yenagoa, with an intention to defile her.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the two political office holders in the administration were received by the executive committee of the APC at the party secretariat in Yenagoa, the state capital
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa reports that all the roads leading to Onopa, the seat of government, were blocked by armed security men
A statement issued on Monday by the General Secretary of the organisation, Pastor Reuben Belema, the group said it had uncovered through its careful findings that Sylva was the “architect and brain” behind all the media attacks, particularly those of the online media, on Justice Mary Odili, wife of the former Rivers State governor, Peter Odili
Both Oshiomhole and Sylva belong to the All Progressives Congress