THEY may come from all works of life, including teachers and educators, sportsmen, broadcasters, scholars, artists, administrators, civil and public servants, religious leaders, traditional rulers and more.

Recent, courts of appeal judgments which have voided mandates of four governors have further confirmed general impression that the worst electoral impurities so far were perpetrated in 2007 poll.

It is now in the public domain that the Supreme Court delivered yet another ruling in the matter listed before it as SC.32/2010 – Alhaji Muhammadu Dingyadi & Anor. v. Independent National Electoral Commission & 2 Others. For purposes of clarity, the appellant in the case was the governorship candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) in the Sokoto State governorship election held in April, 2007 while the 2nd respondent, Aliyu Wamakko was his opponent and flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It is also in the public domain that the 1st respondent (INEC) declared Aliyu Wamakko the winner of the election and is therefore the incumbent governor of Sokoto State.

THE Legislative arm of Bomadi Local Government Council in Delta State, has suspended the Deputy Leader of the House, Mr Timi Peter and three other principal officers for allegedly conspiring to impeach the Leader, Mr Eregbene Vincent, for selfish reasons.

EACH time the government officials speak, they exhibit their distance from the realities Nigerians face. They are not in touch with the people who they claim to represent and on whose behalf they supposedly act.

Imo State Executive Council has adopted the report of the committee on appropriate school fees and subvention to Evan Enwerem University, Owerri.

HAVING failed to take advantage of reconciliation terms he offered some time ago, First Republic Information Minister and an elder of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, 83, has ruled out reconciliation with Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the Delta State PDP Governorship Candidate in the forthcoming court-ordered re-run polls.

Ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential primaries slated for January 12, 2011, the camps of President Goodluck Jonathan and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar have engaged in supremacy tussle over which camp wins the majority vote in Cross River State.

Following his threat to leave the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over the party hierarchy’s refusal to observe the power sharing and rotation arrangement in its constitution, the All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, has declared its readiness to welcome former Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida into its fold.

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, commiserated with Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State over the death of his wife, stressing that God was all knowing as all the affairs of men was in His command.

THE campaign train of Sambo/Jonathan has stormed Asaba, promising that it would ensure that the former governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, was returned to Government House during the re-run polls.

The Federal Government yesterday warned reformed militants to stay away from dissident acts abroad or risk expulsion from its post-amnesty programme.

A GANG of armed robbers yesterday morning in Auchi, Estako West Local Government Area of Edo State, raided a new generation bank and killed a police inspector, even as two other persons were reportedly said to have sustained injuries during the operation, which lasted over an hour.

Falcon’s coach, Eucharia Uche has stated that she is not distracted by calls for her replacement, but rather she is focused on leading the women team to a reasonable outing at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany.

FORMER National Auditor of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Ray Nnaji, declared, yesterday, that a group of politicians from Enugu State who met with the first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, over the crisis rocking the state chapter of the party, were not recognised PDP stakeholders and as such did not represent the interest of majority of party members in the state.