Chief Ben Apugo was a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the former ruling party at the centre.

In this interview, Apugo speaks on why he, alongside Senate President Bukola Saraki, former Governor Nyako of Adamawa State, and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, quit the PDP. He also speaks on the fate of the APC in the South-East and the pro-Biafra quest by some Igbo elements, among other issues.

Southern Ijaw local government area has again proved its uniqueness in Bayelsa State socio-political configuration. The council area, the biggest in the state in terms of landscape, has a coastline of approximately 60km on the Bight of Benin. It also had the highest number of militant camps in the Niger Delta at the height of militancy in the blighted region.

Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Kogi East and Kogi West senatorial districts said on Saturday that they would not shift grounds on Audu/Faleke ticket .

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged Nigerians, irrespective of leanings, to rally round the APC–led government to end Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East.

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday asked President Muhummadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC not to truncate the nation’s democracy by planning to manipulate the Bayelsa State Gubernatorial election against the wishes of the people, just as it cautioned the federal government against alleged moves to use forceful means to take the governorship of Bayelsa State.

THE eagerly awaited Bayelsa State governorship contest proved to be every bit as hotly contested as the main rivals promised in their campaign speeches.

The Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has urged the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government to make conscious efforts to fulfil its promises to Nigerians.

THE governorship election in Kogi may have come and gone but the bells of ripples have kept reverberating to the discomfort of the party that has won the governorship election, the All Progressives Congress, APC

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun yesterday said the party may have to replace its Deputy-Governor Elect for Kogi State, Hon. James Faleke should he fail to present himself for swearing-in on January 27, 2016.

Tension, yesterday, heightened in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital as thousands of All Progressives Congress, APC, supporters took to the streets in protest over the cancellation of the rescheduled governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.