CHIEF Paulinus Akpeki, a frontline politician from the Delta Central Senatorial District of Delta State is currently the State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation. He spoke to Saturday Vanguard in Asaba on the forthcoming re-run polls, the role of his senatorial district in the election, the best thing that happened to the state in 2007 and the way forward.

The NDLEA in the first two years of its current master plan which is 2008 and 2009, have seized 452, 353.08kg of illicit drugs in the country while 14,941 suspected drug traffickers were apprehended. A breakdown of those nabbed shows that males are more with 14,284 and females 657.

I must be honest with you. I really do not know what a Direct Data Capture – DDC – machine looks like. But I guess it must be much larger than an average “pc” personal computer, that is. I know that it is used for the smooth and rapid registration of voters, a facility that is most urgently needed by our nation at this time.

Prince Chibudom Nwuche, former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and currently, deputy Coordinator, Jonathan/Sambo Camapign Organization in the South South, in this interview says the Northern consensus candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar poses no threat to the ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming presidential primaries of the PDP.

Imagine the difference the 25% allocation to Federal legislators over the years would have made to the lives of Nigerians. The nation’s budgets in the last 10 years stand at about N22.5 trillion and based on the revelation from the CBN Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi that 25% of recurrent budget is spent by the National Assembly, as much as N5.62 trillion has accrued to the NASS in the last ten years.