constituency predecessor successor party office term_start article_title term_end name
bayelsa east nimi barigha-amange ben murray-bruce people 's democratic party -lrb- pdp -rrb- member of the senate of nigeria may 2011 clever ikisikpo
 may 2015 clever marcus ikisikpo
clever ikisikpo

clever marcus ikisikpo is a nigerian politician who served as a member of the senate of nigeria from may 2011 to 2015 .
he ran on the people 's democratic party -lrb- pdp -rrb- platform representing bayelsa east constituency , in bayelsa state , nigeria .
ikisikpo gained a bachelor 's degree in education from the university of port harcourt .
he was elected as a member of the bayelsa house of assembly , holding office from 1999 to 2003 .
before his election to the senate , ikisikpo was twice the federal representative for the ogbia constituency , elected in 2003 and again in 2007 .
in the house , he was a member of committees on appropriations , army , emergency & disaster management , petroleum resources -lrb- downstream -rrb- , petroleum resources -lrb- upstream -rrb- and works in february 2010 it was reported that , as committee chairman on petroleum -lrb- downstream -rrb- , ikisikpo was engaged in a struggle with sanusi barkindo , group managing director of the nigeria national petroleum corporation -lrb- nnpc -rrb- .
in october 2010 ikisikpo said there would no longer be any fuel shortages in the country since the house , in partnership with president goodluck jonathan , had permanently broken the cartel that formerly controlled distribution .
