Nigeria: Yes, Fight Jonathan Fight

14 November 2012
opinion

Just ten months ago, four of the five members of the House of Representatives and all three senators from Bayelsa State were pitched in battle against one of their colleagues from the state.

The man on the other side at that time was Rep. Serikae Dickson, a one time leftist, near socialist and political ideologue of the Soviet school. As state chairman of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, in Bayelsa State in 1999, the radical leaning Dickson had helped in the election of the only AD senator from the south-south geopolitical zone. That was Senator Emmanuel Diffa.

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