The campaign organisation of Labour Party’s governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Mr. Timi Alaibe, Tuesday, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security agencies to beef security to check what it described as the importation of mercenaries who neither reside in communities in the state nor are qualified to vote but are being registered amidst protests from the locals.

THE essence of democracy and party system is the control of the machinery of government through the process of election . In democratic dispensation, power belongs to the electorate whose votes should count as an instrument of enthronement into the various elective offices, from the presidency down to the councillorship.

ORGANISED Labour, Tuesday, in Lagos, said the greatest threat to April polls in Nigeria, was the non-implementation of the N18,000 new minimum wage, saying a hungry man cannot be a democrat.

WITH the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, likely to bow to calls by Nigerians that the voters’ registration exercise be extended to enable people participate actively in it, former Governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has advised the commission to ensure that all the identified problems, which had been a hindrance to the commencement of the exercise were solved before talking of any extension of time.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, operatives have found over N800 million in the account of a Deputy Director in the Ministry of Transport, Mrs Phiana Chidi, which was believed to be proceeds from pension funds that she once managed in the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, OHCSF, before she was transferred.