AGAINST the backdrop of the cancelled governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, 11 governorship candidates in the poll have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to check the undue interference of his aides in the exercise by calling them to order.

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.

A GROUP, Lawyers in Defence of Democracy, LDD, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order investigation into the alleged role of security agents in the violence that characterised the Bayelsa State governorship election.

President Muhammadu Buhari said the late President Mathieu Kerekou of Benin Republic will be long remembered and honoured as a father of his nation and founding father of the ECOWAS.

THe All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to quickly address squarely the vexed issue of marginalization of the South East to end the present protests by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.

The Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr Mike Omeri, yesterday, disagreed with the people linking the cause of the ongoing agitation for the republic of Biafra to the President Muhammadu Buhari, saying each section of the country is affected with the current economic reality in Nigeria.

President Muhammadu Buhari says more work is needed to perfect the conduct of elections in Nigeria.

LEADERS under the auspices of Yoruba Summit met in Akure, the Ondo state capital yesterday and asked the federal government to look critically into the causes of separatist feelings and initiate constitutional reforms to give sense of belonging to all constituent units of the country.

Those who think that Nigeria will not attain global competitiveness in the new economy will soon be disappointed as effort to achieve local content, broadband access, professionalism in governance, youth innovation; among others will start yielding the expected results.

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the crisis rocking the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Imo state, MOUAU, to save it from total collapse.