The Election Petitions Tribunal in Bayelsa has received 21 petitions from various candidates who lost at the April polls in the state.

There is no doubt that President Goodluck Jonathan is at the moment thinking deeply on the structure of his government for the next four years. His party, the victorious Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as expected now, must have submitted the names of those who would benefit from the spoils of electoral war in the usual selfish tradition of‘winners take all‘. I am sure that the election victory was Jonathan‘s even if the party through which he won is the PDP.

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP may have survived its worst fears of a public backlash during the last round of elections. Nigeria’s long ruling party is, however, not out of sync with its historical predilection to internal fumbles. The latest crisis hitting the party arose from the zoning of positions after its victories in the presidential and National Assembly elections.

THE April, 2011 general elections have come and gone and those who won have received their certificates of return and waiting for inauguration.

THOUGH the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan at the April 16 presidential elections, is over a month old, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) supporters across the country are still in party mood. This is the feeling even in states where some PDP chieftains failed to deliver the presidential polls in favour of their party.

Mr Marc Wabara, a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain and former Managing Director of defunct Hallmark Bank Plc, in this interview reviewed the just concluded general elections and charged President Goodluck Jonathan to face security, economy and infrastructure for the citizenry to benefit from his reign. Excerpts:

Lagos State Government has secured a license to operate a radio station to be solely dedicated to traffic information and other safety issues.

THE Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger Delta, shot dead a fleeing militant, suspected to be a member of John Togo’s Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, at Aladja, near Warri, Delta State, yesterday.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has petitioned the Chief Justice of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, over an alleged conduct of Justice Charles Archibong of the court in the suit by former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr Erastus Akingbola.