CrossFire Interrogator

SOKU OIL WELLS: The endless controversy By Mike Odiegwu reporting from Yenagoa Who between Bayelsa and Rivers states owns Soku oil wells? In resolving the conflict of ownership, stakeholders believe that it is pertinent to first determine the ideal location of Soku in the administrative map. Are the disputed Soku oil wells located in Oluasiri, a community in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, or are they situated in Kalabari, a kingdom in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area in Rivers State? This is the major question begging for answers as two Niger-Delta states, Rivers and neigbouring Bayelsa, fight dirty over an oil rich border area. Bayelsa State’s claim of ownership to the disputed oil wells stemmed from the 11th edition of the country’s administrative map. The map, which was published by the National Boundary Commission and the Federal Surveyor-General’s Office in 2000, located the boundary between Rivers and Bayelsa at the San Bartholomew River

WIKE’S OVERBEARING INFLUENCE A THREAT TO INTERNAL COHESION WITHIN PDP - GROUP ALLEGES By Donald Sylva The PDP Renaissance Group has expressed deep concern over what it described as the overbearing influence of the Governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Barrister Nyesom Wike The National Coordinator of the PDPRG, Mallam Ahmed Shaffa, said that the domineering tendencies of Governor Wike's actions which became pronounced during the party’s primaries and the election of the Minority leader of the House Representatives call for serious concern. Saffa said during a press briefing in Lafia, on Saturday that it was not in the interest of the PDP which should be preoccupied with regaining control of the Centre to breed disharmony among its members. He said that the recent media exchanges between the Governor of Rivers State and his Bayelsan counterpart, Hon. Seriake Dickson, has further exposed the PDP as a party that lacks unity and internal harmony. T

DISPUTED OIL WELLS: WIKE INCITING DISUNITY IN IJAW LAND TO PROMOTE ETHNIC SUPREMACIST AGENDA IN RIVERS POLITICS - GOV DICKSON ...SET TO VISIT 90 YEAR OLD KALABARI MONARCH AGAIN IN JANUARY 2020 By John Akpasubi The Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has accused his Rivers State Counterpart, Governor Nyesom Wike, of inciting ethnic disharmony in Ijaw land in pursuit a wicked clandestine ethnic supremacist agenda in the politics of Rivers State. The Governor said during a live media chat in Yenagoa on Saturday night that the Rivers Governor was merely using the disputed oil wells between the two sister states as a mere subterfuge to create disunity and to cover up the deliberate underdevelopment of Rivers Ijaw communities by pretending to be their champion. Governor Dickson dismissed his Rivers State counterpart's comments on the disputed oil wells as reckless, childish and uncivilized with an evil intent to attack age-long bon

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE HONORABLE ATTORNEY-GENERAL & COMMISSIONER OF JUSTICE, BAYELSA STATE, IN RESPECT OF THE OLUASIRI OILFIELDS/OIL WELLS ISSUED TODAY, THURSDAY, THE 19TH OF DECEMBER, 2019 Following the false claim of the Rivers State Government to the ownership of the Oluasiri Oil fields/Oil wells situate in the Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, an area referred to by the Rivers State Government as Soku Oilfields/Oil wells, the Rivers State Government instituted an action against the National Boundary Commission (NBC) at the Federal High Court, Abuja to give effect to its false claim.  From Monday 16th December, 2019 the media had been awashed with reports that the Federal High Court, sitting at Abuja had delivered a judgment awarding the ownership of the said Oluasiri Oilfields/Oil wells to Rivers State purportedly pursuant to the judgment of the Supreme Court in Suit No. CS/106/2009 between Attorney-General, Rivers State v. Attorney-General, Bayelsa

UDOM EMMANUEL-SEYI MAKINDE’S SUPREME COURT VICTORIES: PDP GOVERNORS FORUM REACTS - Assures members of unflinching support and loyalty By Donald Sylva The PDP Governors Forum has congratulated Governors Udom Emmanuel and Seyi Makinde of Akwa Ibom and Oyo States respectively over the validation of their election victories by the Supreme Court against the decision of the Court of Appeal. In a statement on Wednesday, the Forum, said the news of the apex court verdicts did not come as a surprise because of the massive support Deacon Emmanuel and Engr. Makinde received from the people and residents of Akwa Ibom and Oyo States respectively during the March 9th, 2019 Governorship Election. The Forum said the affirmation of the mandates clears the path for the governors to settle down in the enormous tasks of taking their states to greater heights without any further distractions.  It described the victories as a testimony to the transparent, credible, democratic,