BY 2019 PDP would have governed Delta state for 20 unbroken years! This is a long time in power by a political party. Delta state is not the only state in this category. Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa state, Ebonyi, and Cross River states have this special record. By this token Delta state PDP with its long rule furnished all the governors, majority of the legislators, both federal and state and it has controlled majority of the local government councils.

Second Republic politician, Mr Ishaya Dare Akau served as commissioner in the Lawal Katia administration in the Old Kaduna State, was executive secretary in the National Agricultural Land Development Authority, NALDA, and became the first chairman of the National Assembly Service Commission, NASC before becoming the second and indeed last chairman of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, ( SURE-P).

Senator Buruji Kashamu, PDP Ogun East District was in recent times the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Southwest Mobilisation Committee and a major patron of the party in the region. In this interview, he charges Nigerians to back President Muhammadu Buhari’s change agenda and anti-graft war in the interest of the citizenry because fighting the government to a standstill may lead to political turmoil that the country may not survive.

The National Executive Committee, NEC, of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, resolved to bring the term of the Ali Modu Sheriff-led executive of the party to an end on May 21.

The orgy of killings continued in Rivers State, yesterday, with a middle-aged man, hacked and burnt in Buguma Town, in Asari-Toru Local Government Area of the state by suspected political thugs.