A total of 31 petitions have been filed before the Bayelsa State Election Petition Tribunal which began sitting in Yenagoa, the state capital on Thursday. Meanwhile, the tribunal has warned litigants and counsels to desist from seeking unnecessary incessant adjournments and filing of frivolous applications and preliminary objections which are time wasting and aimed at…
A Non Governmental Organization (NGO), Diaspora 4 Diri (D4D), has enjoined Bayelsans to vote candidate with pedigree. The call, which was made by the group’s founder, Dr Rosalyn Dressman, while chatting with journalists to lend her voice to the Bayelsa youth match/rally for Gov Douye Diri, added that the state needs more of a pen…
A Non Governmental Organization (NGO) Diaspora 4 Diri (D4D) known for promoting peace, good governance and sustainability says its ready to galvanize support for the re-election of Senator Douye Diri. Speaking during a courtesy visit to the office of the Special Adviser on Political Matters to the Bayelsa State Governor, the leader of the NGO,…
Following the conclusion of the Presidential and National Assembly elections, and the formal release of the authentic list of Senators and Honourable Members-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Management of the National Assembly, in conjunction with the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic studies (NILDS) is now fully prepared for the induction…
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has called on the Supreme Court Judges to maintain their integrity and resist any attempt of subversiveness through inducement as regards the Osun governorship matter. He said some desperate politicians have began move to upturn Governor Ademola Adeleke’s victory at Appeal…
Barr Binalayefa Osuluku has emerged the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the November 11 gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State. Osuluku who was declared winner at the party’s primaries conducted at the SDP state secretariat swali, Yenagoa .defeated one other aspirant to clinch the party’s ticket. Declaring the results,in a keenly contested election,Chairman…
The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Chief Dr Samuel Ogbuku says the November 11 guber election in Bayelsa State will determine which party is on ground and has the interest of the people. The NDDC boss,stated this after casting his vote in his hometown Ayakoro community in Bayelsa State at unit…
In previous Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primaries in Bayelsa State there had never been a time an aspirant emerged as a sole candidate of the PDP,it has always been a contest on who to be the party flagbearer in the general election. It is however different scenario in the last gubernatorial primary in the…
One of the Aspirants for the 2023 Kogi gubernatorial race, under Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dr. Reuben O. Atabo, SAN has announced his withdrawal from the race.Dr. Reuben O. Atabo, SAN highlighted that his decision to withdraw from the contest for Kogi State’s most revered seat was mostly motivated by personal matters and indicated that…
*You’ve been losing since 1993, he replies Atiku*Says call for run-off poll baseless The President Elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has challenged the competence of a petition the Labour Party, LP, and its candidate, Peter Obi, filed to nullify his election. He also queried the legal competence of the Peoples…
