Plenary has been disrupted at the Bayelsa House of Assembly as sporadic gunshots rented the air when hoodlums invaded the premises. The violence followed the refusal of the speaker, Emmanuel Isenah, to resign as a result of pressure from the Peoples Democratic Party leadership in the state, Channels reports.
Isenah was asked to resign because he hails from the same area as the PDP candidate in the forthcoming governorship election in the state, Douye Diri.
According to This Day, Isenah insisted that he remains speaker, while he was allegedly impeached by his colleagues on Monday, September 30, following his refusal to resign. The assembly has been taken over by the security personnel, including officers from the Department of State Services
Meanwhile, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, had doused the fear that he had been parleying with leaders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in preparation for the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa state. The governor commented on his relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief Timipre Sylva, the leader of the APC in the state.
Dickson said that those defecting in the state were doing so because they were chasing their own economic gain and not because of any political difference. When asked to clarify the allegation that the political crisis in his party was being sponsored by external forces, the governor denied any crisis in the PDP.
He said if there was any party battling with post-primary crisis, he said it was the APC as they were in the casualty ward in the state. Dickson said: “First of all, there is no post-primary crisis rocking PDP. If there is any party that is suffering from acute, incurable post-primary crisis, it is APC.”
