Gov Dickson accuses GOC 6 Div of comprising security in polls

Bayelsa State governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has accused the
General Officer Commanding (GOC), 6th Division of the Nigerian
Army, Major General Sharham Jamil of compromising security in
favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in yesterday’s governorship election in the
state.

The governor claimed that even though General Sarham has been
transferred to the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, he refused to
move and waited behind to supervise the use of the Army to
perpetrate heinous electoral crimes and irregularities in the
Bayelsa guber poll.

The governor said that the GOC and the Brigade Commander of the
Artillery Brigade, attached soldiers to all APC leaders in all the
wards who they used to terrorize people from one polling unit to
another.

Dickson said that the GOC moved to Yenagoa to personally
supervise the undemocratic and illegal activities of the Army in
the Bayelsa polls using the Brigade Commander of the Artillery
Brigade as the commander of his soldiers in the orgy of violence on
Bayelsans.

Major General Sarham was supposed to hand over to his successor,
Major General Felix Aguguo, on November 5, the governor said, but
he did not do so.

It would be recalled that the state Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party had earlier alerted of a plot by the APC to use
the GOC and the Nigerian Army to undermine security during
governorship poll in Bayelsa.

He said: “I am accusing the GOC of the 6th Division, Maj Gen
Sarham Jamil of delaying his handing over process after his
transfer to the Nigeria Defence Academy, Kaduna, to perfect this
illegal mission of rigging election in Bayelsa.”