Diepreye Alamieyeseigha
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Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha ("DSP") (b. 16 November 1952) was governor of Bayelsa State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 9 December 2005.
He was detained in London on charges of money laundering. Metropolitan Police officers allegedly found £1 million cash at one of his many London homes. The state he has governed in Nigeria for the last six years does not have any electricity, yet he has been found to own real estate in London worth an alleged £10 million.
His state's monthly federal allocation for the last six years has been in the order of £32 million.
He jumped bail in December 2005 from the United Kingdom while allegedly disguised as a woman. He was suspended from the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) in early December 2005 before being impeached by the Bayelsa State Assembly on 9 December. He will be handed over to the British authorities again. He was replaced by his Deputy Governor Goodluck Jonathan.
As many of Nigeria's Governors are notorious for corruption, many believe Alamieyeseigha was targeted by President Olusegun Obasanjo because Alamieyeseigha was a leader of a rebellious clique in the ruling PDP that questioned some of Obasanjo's decisions, particularly his rejection of a higher percentage of oil revenues for oil producing states. The state Alamieyeseigha governed, Bayelsa State, is the largest oil-producing state in Nigeria and therefore stands to gain the most from an increase in the derivation fund.
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