Tag: bayelsa
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Wike threatens to remove monarch for ‘receiving’ Bayelsa gov without permission
…blasts Dickson for causing ‘division’ among Rivers people Angry Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has attacked the Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson for allegedly trying to cause division in Rivers. The governor also called on Kalabari leaders to prevail on the Amanyanabo of Kalabari, King Theophilus J.T. Princewill, not to allow himself to be used…
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Kogi, Bayelsa polls were peaceful – IGP
Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police (IGP), says the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states were peaceful. Adamu said this while speaking at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) inter-agency consultative committee on election security (ICCES) meeting in Abuja on Wednesday. The elections, conducted on November 16, were marred by cases of violence, thuggery, ballot…
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APC Bayelsa cautions Dickson: ‘Stop heating up the polity’
Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has told the governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, to stop threatening the state and trying to raise tension following the electoral defeat of his candidate. APC advised, instead, that Dickson should toe the path of democracy and rule of law by taking his grievances to the…
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Bayelsa: INEC, Police, APC counter Dickson, insist ‘nobody died during guber poll’
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the police, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and other stakeholders have insisted that nobody died during the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa State. In separate interviews, they debunked insinuations by the state Governor, Seriake Dickson that 22 people were killed with 10 of them…
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Police confirm abduction of three female students in Bayelsa
The police have confirmed the abduction of three female students of the Bayelsa State College of Health Technology, Otuogidi, Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State by unidentified gunmen. The final year students of Environmental Department were seized by their assailants at about 11 am on Monday and taken to an unknown place. Sources said the…
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10 beheaded in ‘violent’ Bayelsa poll – Dickson
Twenty two people were killed during the November 16 violent Bayelsa State election, Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson alleged on Monday. Ten of them, according to the governor, were beheaded, their bodies mutilated and thrown into the sea. Dickson, at an interractive session with reporters in Abuja, said: “I just set up a panel of…
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Bayelsa poll: Lamido’s cruel attack on Jonathan, By Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon Former President Goodluck Jonathan has become the latest target of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to direct its angst for its defeat in the November 16, 2019, poll in Bayelsa State. The initial prey, as usual, were President Muhammadu Buhari; the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC);…
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Bayelsa: APC denies influencing INEC’s list of presiding officers
All Progressives Congress (APC) says that it does not influence the list of Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct forthcoming Bayelsa governorship election. In a statement signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Yekini Nabena, in Abuja on Tuesday, APC dismissed the allegation by the Peoples Democratic…
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Kidnappers free 84-year-old Bayelsa monarch
The abducted 84-year-old monarch of Tarakiri clan, Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa State, King George Agbabou Week, has regained freedom 25 days after he was kidnapped by unknown gunmen. Unidentified gunmen on October 3 abducted the Traditional Ruler, who is the father of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Doodei Week, and whisked him away from…
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Guber polls: Bayelsa, Kogi, most difficult states to conduct elections in Nigeria – INEC
…warns political gladiators against inciting violence The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned the actions and utterances of political actors were likely to militate against peaceful conduct of the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa. The National Chairman of INEC, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, who spoke on Tuesday when he visited the office of the…