The PDP Governor Henry Seriake Dickson declared seven days of mourning and ordered flags to be flown at half-mast for the Ijaw 'Chief of Chiefs'...
Seriake Dickson stands for re-election as Governor on 5 December...
The other Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa remains a semi-detached member of the PDP but is no longer on speaking terms with Patience who formerly served in his state government...
Poisonous relationsAn even more opaque contest is developing in neighbouring Bayelsa where Governor Henry Seriake Dickson has fallen out terminally with First Lady Patience who has resigned her position in the Bayelsa State government...
Next door in Bayelsa Governor Henry Seriake Dickson still nominally in the PDP has been locked in a very public row with Patience Jonathan the highly interventionist presidential wife...
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Just five of the 36 state governors clearly back Jonathan’s second-term bid: Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa Ibrahim Shema of Katsina Chief Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia and Gabriel Suswam of Benue...
In February’s governorship election there Jonathan openly campaigned for the winner Henry Seriake Dickson whose overwhelming qualification was that he was Jonathan’s man...
Jonathan’s own man Henry Seriake Dickson was parachuted in and unsurprisingly won the governorship election on 13 February...
His close friends include retired General Owoye Andrew Azazi a former Chief of Defence Staff; Emmanuel Paulker Executive Secretary of the National Boundary Commission and former People's Democratic Party Chairman in Bayelsa; and Henry Dickson a member of parliament and former Bayelsa Attorney General...
