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 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

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa on Wednesday raised the alarm, alleging that some politicians and groups planned to breach the existing peace in the state.

One of the identified problems militating against our development as a country is not just the absence of qualitative leadership but lack of intelligent electorates. For a nation far behind its peers in political and economic development, the desire to see Nigeria develop and take the vacant throne of leadership in Africa is prevalent in the international community

The battle is far from over for the two leading political parties in the Bayelsa State governorship election, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressive Congress,APC following the cancellation of the last Sunday rescheduled election in Southern Ijaw Local Council by the Independent National Election Commission over alleged irregularities.

FOR the better part of two days, members of the All Progressive Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. literally crippled the economy of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital as they tried to outshine one another via rally and march on the ever busy Aba road.

THE candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the inconclusive Bayelsa State governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva, has urged his supporters to remain calm over the issues arising from the exercise because the electoral process has not been completed.

THE Court of Appeal in Ibadan has dismissed the verdict of a lower election petition tribunal in Ogun State which had earlier nullified the election of Senator Buruji Kashamu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and declared him winner of the election.

President Muhammadu Buhari and other eminent Nigerians, yesterday, challenged the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and other opposition parties in the country to learn from the tenacity and rough path to glory of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in order to advance the democratic space and good governance in the country.