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From: Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa
There is uneasy calm in Bayelsa State over the proposed dissolution of the State executive council (SEC) by Governor Henry Seriake Dickson.
Investigations revealed that the dissolution, coming at the heels of the sack of the eight local government caretaker committee chairmen, is to inject fresh blood with innovative ideals into his administration.
Members of the SEC have already been directed to prepare their handover notes in preparation for the cabinet reshuffle which is expected to happen after Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka commissioned some projects including the Ijaw National Academy.
Sources said the cabinet reshuffle has become necessary due to poor performance of some Commissioners, political distraction and divided loyalty especially on who takes over from Dickson after his tenure would have ended.
It is believed that some cabinet members rather than focus on the delivery of the dividend of democracy by implementing the policies of the administration have been divided along the core and no core ijaw and have been engaging in political meetings over the successor of Dickson.
Sources said members of Dickson political family from Southern Ijaw, Kolokuma/Opokuma and Yenagoa local government areas have meeting with political actors from their area on how to push the agenda of their different local government councils clinching the governorship after Dickson.
Meanwhile Gowon and Soyinka according to sources were picked by the state government because of their status as forthright leaders without political bias.
Sources said Dickson who has been mulling on the idea of who to invite to commission some of the projects executed by his administration zeroed in on Gowon and Soyinka to demonstrate that his administration achievement is not just on paper .
Aside the Ijaw National Academy, a tuition free world standard educational facility built for brilliant indigent students from all the eight local government councils in the state and Ijaw states, the two elder statesmen are also expected to commission the New Governor’s Office.
