Henry Seriake Dickson

Former Bayelsa governor Henry Seriake Dickson set up the commission in March 2019 (AC Vol 62 No 25 Clogged-up commission)...

Avondale Services & Supples Ltd is run by Ayibatonye Owe a former Bayelsa health commissioner and friend of former Bayelsa Governor Henry Seriake Dickson...

The Commission was set up under the previous Bayelsa governor Henry Seriake Dickson in March 2019 to quantify the ecological problems and chart a strategy to address them making the oil and gas industry more accountable in the process...

Former governor of Bayelsa State Seriake Dickson has been lobbying for this having established the Bayelsa Commission and persuaded the Archbishop of York John Sentamu (who has just retired) to chair it...

The PDP's outgoing Bayelsa governor Henry Seriake Dickson lambasted for appointing so many relatives to government and nominating his cousin Senator Douye Diri as gubernatorial candidate had to endure a storm of resignations just before the elections (AC Vol 60 no 18 The oil clean-up that didn't...

The outgoing governor Henry Seriake Dickson is a stalwart of the PDP...

In August Bayelsa Governor Henry Seriake Dickson – speaking through his Deputy Gboribiogha John Jonah – condemned the killing of three soldiers by presumed oil thieves at a notorious trouble spot Nembe Creek...

In January Henry Seriake Dickson won neighbouring Bayelsa State for the PDP in a rerun...

Yet with the PDP Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike's mandate in Rivers State upheld in the High Court with Timipre Sylva (who went over from the PDP to the governing All Progressives Congress) a sore loser to the PDP's Henry Seriake Dickson in Bayelsa with a protracted war with Boko Haram with inter-communal violence between Sunni Muslims and the Shiite minority in the north and with renewed tension in the Middle Belt the Presidency has signalled that it intends to leave the rump PDP faction in place for now...

The governorship election on 5 December in neighbouring Bayelsa pitted Timipre Sylva now with the APC but a former PDP member against incumbent Governor Henry Seriake Dickson who is standing again on the PDP ticket...

As Africa Confidential went to press Seriake Dickson was leading by 30 000 votes but officials of the Independent National Election Commission called off voting in the Southern Ijaw area traditionally the Ijaw seat of government where both Tompolo and Sylva have support bases...