A CAT and mouse game laced with political intrigues is playing out between members of the National Assembly and some of their governors over perceived plans by the latter to derail the re-election of a number of recalcitrant federal legislators.

The House of Representatives resumed in the first week of January, 2010 on a stormy note. They had a case of terror involving 23-year old Abdul-Farouk Mutallab, a Nigerian caught on a Detroit, United States-bound aircraft with an explosive tied around his waist, to handle.

SENATOR Zaynab Kure has thrown her weight behind the re-election of Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State.

A leading pro-democracy activist, Salihu Mohammed Lukman, has urged fellow activists and credible Nigerians to proffer answers to nagging socio-economic and political questions in the country by participating actively in the electoral process.

MISTER Itiako Ikpokpo is one of the young politicians in Delta State gunning for the Delta State House of Assembly seat in his Isoko South Constituency 1.In this brief chat with Vanguard in Asaba, he ventilates on his mission and political undercurrents in the oil rich state. Excerpts: