A popular election monitoring group, Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA), has decried the trend of vote buying in Nigeria’s electoral process, even as it condemned the practice in the recently held off cycle polls in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa states. According to CTA, vote buying has solidified into a crime that involves the majority of political parties and their operatives. Read More
The recently-concluded Bayelsa governorship election, held on November 11, which saw the re-election of Governor Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been attributed to data mining strategic planning, among others. His emergence, according to stakeholders, reveal the meticulous deliberate policies orchestrated by CellHub’s Managing Director, Mr. Idris Usman and his team. According to Usman, the aforementioned factors Read More
Member representing Ideato Federal Constituency of Imo State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu, has produced alleged evidence of how fake accreditation figures were successfully uploaded into BVAS machines and used to back up the magic figures that were used to steal the mandate of Mbaitolu/Ikeduru, Ahiazu Mbaise, Isu and Ideato South elections during the last Read More
The Director General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Dr. Joseph Ochogwu, has called for violent-free elections in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi states holding on Saturday, November 11, 2023. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Saturday, November 11, 2023, conduct the Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi states governorship elections. In a statement signed by Esther Ndukwe Read More
In the wake of recent attacks on supporters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Brass Local Government Area, the Bayelsa Youth Vanguard has issued a stern warning, vowing to resist any attempt to rig the Saturday’s governorship election in the state. Yesterday, reports surfaced of violent incidents targeting PDP supporters in Brass Local Government. The attacks, allegedly carried out Read More
The Bayelsa East Women Solidarity Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has raised a red flag over what they claim to be a clandestine plan by some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the senatorial district. The PDP Women Group alleged that there is an orchestrated scheme to divert election materials, particularly result sheets, ahead of the Read More
Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa State, CellHub, an election management team, which has engaged in series of activities towards the election, has commended the performance of the security agencies involved in the pre-election operations, particularly the Military. This is even as the team has identified some security flashpoints in the State that may cause mayhem during the polls. Read More
Former Vice President of Nigeria and leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has asked all his support groups body to mobilise for the success of the party in the governorship elections in Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo states. The three states of Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi state will go to poll this Saturday to elect new governors. In Read More
The Bayelsa Mandate Forum, on Friday, expressed worry over recent outbreak of violence and tragic killing of a supporter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nembe community, in the State. Mrs Esther Ikurite, chairperson of the Forum in a statement made available to newsmen, linked the act of violence to inflammatory remarks and a call for violence against opposition party Read More
With barely one week to the governorship election in Bayelsa State, leaders of Bayelsa Progressives Forum have vowed to resist any intimidation or harassment of voters by security agents, especially the Police. They said if nothing urgent was not done to address the issues, they’ll left with no choice, but to lead mass protests. Reacting to an alleged harassment of Read More
Less than two weeks to the governorship election in Bayelsa State, leading female political figures have called on the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), to take appropriate action against the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Joshua Maciver for inciting violence against members of the opposition. The women who are members of Bayelsa Women Arise in a Read More
Ahead of November 11, 2023 governorship election in Bayelsa state, Secretary of the Media and Publicity, Bayelsa State National Gubernatorial Campaign Council, Yekeni Nabena, has tasked the security agencies to focus their activities on Bayelsa state so as to prevent cases of violence and other criminal acts before and during the forthcoming election. Nabena, who is a former Deputy National Read More
Residents of Kpansia area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, on Sunday looted a warehouse containing food items kept by the state government. Blueprint gathered that the residents cartered away items including bags of rice and garri as well as cartons of noodles and bottled water, and they were said to be part of the relief materials donated by some concerned Nigerians Read More
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has called on the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to urgently reopen probe into circumstances leading to the extrajudicial murder of a young man by police in Bayelsa State during the tenure of Chief Timipre Sylva as governor. Frank made this appeal in a petition Read More
The Supreme Egbesu Order (SEO), the Ijaw religious organisation has lambasted the Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu (retd) for his partisan interests in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Candidate in Bayelsa State, Governor Douye Diri. The Chief Superintending Officer, SEO, Apostle Bodmas Kemepadei in a statement in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, observed that some developments Read More
Bayelsa state government has formally handed over three fishermen who lost their way on the Gulf of Guinea to the Sao Tome and Principe Head of Mission in Nigeria. Speaking in Government House, Yenagoa, during the formal handover on Thursday night, Governor Diri lauded the local fishermen in Okpoama community in Brass local government of the state, who rescued their Read More
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Hon. Yekini Nabena, has slammed the Rivers state governor Nysome Wike for ordering demolition of Bayelsa state properties located in Port Harcourt. Nabena warned the outgoing governor Wike not to extend what he described as “political drunkenness” beyond Rivers state, adding that state properties should not be used to settle personal political Read More
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has filed a criminal complaint case against the immediate past Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva at the Chief Magistrate Court Abuja. In the suit filed by his Counsel, Edward Omaga Esq. of Graylaw Practice LP chambers, Frank urged the Chief Magistrate of the Federal Capital Territory Read More
The Bayelsa State Executive Council, on Friday, held a special valedictory session in honour of late Senator Inatimi Rufus-Spiff, who served the state and Rivers State in different capacities. The late technocrat and politician, who died at 68 years, was one-time Secretary to State Government in the old Rivers state during the Rufus Ada-George administration, Commissioner for Education during late Read More
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Bayelsa state governorship candidate for the Nov 11th election and the immediate past minister of state for petroleum resources, Chief Timpere Sylva, has implored Bayelsans to vote for APC, to avoid the state remaining in opposition, saying “the state will benefit maximally from the ruling party.” Sylva stated this while addressing party supporters after his Read More
Thousands of youths on, Wednesday, took to major roads of Yenagoa in Bayelsa state for a solidarity walk in support of the re-election bid of Governor Douye Diri. The youths from the eight local government areas of the state walked a distance of more than 10 kilometres from the popular Tombia roundabout to the Peace Park opposite the Government House. Read More
Former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, has emerged as the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the 2023 November election. He defeated the 2019 governor-elect, David Pereworimini Lyon, and four others. Announcing the results at the state APC secretariat on Saturday April 15, the chairman of the APC Primary Election Committee and Returning Officer, Maj. Gen. A. T. Read More
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has handed over two of its uncompleted bridge projects in Bayelsa to the state government. The critical bridges are located at Akenfa and Polaku in Yenagoa local government area of the state. The Polaku bridge connects communities in Yenagoa with Sabagreia in Kolokuma/Opokuma local government areas as well as provides an alternative route from Read More
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, on Saturday, gave kudos to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the House of Assembly election in the state. Governor Diri said it was an improvement on the February 25, 2023 presidential and national assembly elections, which drew so much condemnation. He described the process of Saturday’s election as peaceful, Read More
Violence has been reported in some voting areas in Ogbia, Bayelsa state. Blueprint correspondent gathered that voting materials for Ogbia wards 2, 3, 4 and 5 under Constituency 2 in Ogbia Local Govt Area of Bayelsa State have carted away and destroyed as early as 8.30am during state assembly election on Saturday March 18, 2023. The state governor Douye Diri Read More
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