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Dec 9, 2025
Ayo Oke: APC playing politics with serious national issues - Seriake Dickson
Daily Post Nigeria
Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson, has slammed the All Progressives Congress, APC, saying the party is now known for playing politics with serious national issues.
According to him, it was this reason that a former director general of Nigeria's National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ayodele Oke, was once prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, without having anything against him.
Oke was appointed by then president Goodluck Jonathan to head the NIA but the APC government led by late former President Muhammadu Buhari used the EFCC to open corruption cases against him.
Speaking after the screening of the first ambassadorial nominees submitted to the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu, of which Mr Oke was one of the three names, Dickson slammed the APC, insisting that such prosecution should not happen in the first place.
Recall that President Tinubu had taken the names of three individuals to the Senate for screening and confirmation as ambassadors.
They were Ayodele Oke, Kayode Are, and Aminu Dalhatu.
Bayelsa West Senator Dickson who is the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, said he was curious to know how the Oke's corruption case with the Nigerian authorities ended.
The lawmaker maintained that the Senate owes the country a duty to throw some relevant questions at the nominees to clear the air on certain developments.
"I asked Oke, pointedly, to clear the air on the controversies leading to his exit from office[as NIA DG. In his answers, Ambassador Oke...explained the issues leading to his departure from office and furnished us with a copy of a court order affirming his acquittal, following the withdrawal of the case against him," Dickson wrote on X.
"This confirms the view I have long held: that since its formation, the APC has always played politics with serious national issues such as corruption, terrorism, and the economy. They politic
