In the last three months, there has been a raging war between the state governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson and the first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. Osa Okhomina examines the recent political onslaught between the governor and loyalists of Dame Jonathan

Unlike other states of the federation, the centre of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa, the home state of President Goodluck Jonathan, seems weakened and unable to hold in the face of the raging cold war between the state governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson and the wife of the president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

While many state chapters of the PDP are being reconciled ahead of the 2015 presidential elections, the relationship among the members of the Bayelsa PDP, the state governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, and loyalists of the wife of the president, Dame Patience Jonathan, have become strained, threatening to give victory of the 2015 presidential and National Assembly to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

How It Started

While many followers of the party have blamed the struggle for who emerges as 2016 governorship candidate of the party for being responsible for the crises, others have argued that the sour relationship created between Dickson and members of the National Assembly over the outcome of the party's primary election in the state and National Assembly is the cause.
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