As the Kogi governorship election draws closer, supporters of the two leading parties, APC and PDP, are already locked in a war of words over their flagbearers. On November 21, 2015 the people of Kogi State will make an important decision about who to elect as their governor as fixed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Two weeks later, on December 5, it will be the turn of Bayelsa people to go to the polls.

The Sylva-Igiri Campaign Organisation (SICO) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticized the policies and programmes of the incumbent Governor, Seriake Dickson, describing it as anti-people, wicked and painful.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State has slammed the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Timipre Sylva’s claim that the state government deliberately owed pensioners and that if he becomes governor he would immediately pay their arrears.

Ahead of the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa State, a group, Society Watch Group (SWAG), has thrown its weight behind the second term bid of Governor Seriake Dickson, citing his numerous achievements. The Coordinator of SWAG, Douglas Koroye who spoke in Yenagoa called on the people of the state to come out en masse to ensure the Governor’s return to Creek Haven to enable him consolidate on the gains of his first term in office.

We are here to open up the nation to economic diversification through increase in the revenue base and provide a veritable substitute to oil as the main foreign exchange earner for Nigeria. This administration inherited enormous challenges and unless we all work together to change our present outlook speedily, the trust and confidence placed in us by the electorate would be a mandate misplaced.”