Panel members complained about interference in their negotiations by the Bayelsa authorities headed by the newly appointed Governor Goodluck Jonathan (replacing the disgraced and gaoled Diepreye Alamieyeseigha)...
The authorities had been bracing themselves for a new round of fighting following the arrest of two key Delta leaders Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Solomon Alamieyeseigha and the Ijaw nationalist-cum-gangster leader Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari in November...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Politics there will be dominated by the arrest and trial of Dokubo Asari and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha both so tarnished that they may not be able to galvanise a new Delta resistance...
The first stage of President Olusegun Obasanjo's operation 'Restore Hope' against Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is over with the impeaching of the beleaguered Governor by the State's House of Assembly on 9 December...
'Thank heaven for the return of our father ' sang several thousand supporters of the Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Solomon Alamieyeseigha on 21 November the morning of his return to Yenagoa...
At the same time British police arrested Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha on money laundering charges at London's Heathrow Airport...
In London the pro-Atiku PDP Governor of Bayelsa Diepreye Alamieyeseigha faces trial next month on multiple counts of money laundering having secured extremely onerous terms for bail after being remanded in Brixton gaol...
Heading for the South-South The key players on the South-South team include: Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha (who calls himself Governor General of the Ijaw Nation and has opened communications with Vice-President Abubakar); Ijaw National Congress President Kimse Okoko; former activist and now Bayelsa commissioner Oronto Douglas; and former minister Edwin Clarke from Delta also an Ijaw...
The battle pits establishment Ijaws such as Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha against local warlord Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari...
Federalists Diepreye Alamieyeseigha: Bayelsa State Governor; controls Nigeria's third largest federal allocation; self-appointed leader of Ijaw federalists; like fellow governors (James Ibori Delta and Peter Odili Rivers) he plays in his speeches on the 'struggle' and 'battle' for 'resource control'...