Tyranny. Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state defends his tyranny and imposition over three local governments and their chairmen.

Governor Henry Seriake Dickson has broken his silence on the crisis rocking three local government councils in the state declaring that he would stand firm by Nigeria’s constitution. He told three embattled local government chairmen of his state that they should stop blackmailing him.This is even as the crisis has deepened with claims by the legislative arms of Sagbama and Kolokuma/ Opokuma that they have impeached their chairmen and replaced them with leaders of the legislative arms of the two councils. Koku Gariga ( Sagbama), Selekibina Sabo ( Ekeremor) and Ineye Ingbaifugha ( Kolokuma/ Opokuma) who were ordered to be sworn-in as Council chairmen by the Supreme Court have been at logger-heads with members of the legislative council culminating in the serving of impeachment notice to the council chairmen.The embattled council chairmen have fingered Dickson in their travails insisting that the impeachment notice served on them and the setting up of impeachment panel by the Chief Judge of Bayelsa were orchestrated by Dickson because they (council chairmen) had categorically turned down the request of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stay for few months and insisted that they would serve out their term of three years. However, speaking on the issue for the first time during the celebration of the 365 days since he assumed office, Dickson said the embattled council chairmen want to blackmail him so that he can support them in their battle with their legislative houses.According to him, as a lover of law enforcement being a former policeman and lawyer, he would not do anything that would violate the constitution of the country. Giving an insight into how the crisis was triggered by the battle of wits between Chief Rufus Abadi who was then state chairman of PDP and former Governor Timipre Sylva, Dickson maintained that the three council chairmen were not the candidates of the party. He said their problems were self-inflicted as they neglected the constitution and decided to run the affairs of the council like sole administrators.However from our sources, the real issues that transpired between the Koku Gariga ( Sagbama) and the Bayelsa state Governor - Dickson was owing to the grieve that koku Gariga didn't support the governor at his gubernatorial campaign saying he had someone else that he loved to support. According the legal counsel for the three local governments led by Barr. Nelson Ihedinachi, Governor Dickson had lobbied to remove these chairmen from office on political reasons, and that the Chief Judge of Bayelsa state is partisan to the perpetration of this dramatic political rascality, owing to the fact that there was a court injunction which stipulated that no council should sit for any reason in this three local govt areas until the issue be resolved, but the Governor through the CJ manipulated the councilors to sit to carry out impeachment proceedings.Meanwhile it should be noted that the chairmen for these three local govt areas are currently on the run as at the time of this report by the counsel as they are continually chased by government functionaries who seek to abduct them. It was also stated by our source that the governor - Dickson offered N300 million to one of the counsel chairmen being his supposed earnings for his three year term in office just for him to vacate the office. The court however still has to preside over the issue as it is a case before the court of law. But what is the future of the law if the chief justice of a state can be partisan in the ill administration of the government?