Since the return to civil rule in 1999 the PDP has been the dominant party in the predominantly riverine state. It was the contention of analysts that if the 1999 election had held simultaneously in the state like the rest of the country, the APP candidate, Chief Francis Doukpola would have won the poll given the latter’s popularity. But the Kaiama declaration and its attendant youth restiveness led to the postponement of election, a development that worked in favour of the PDP.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, expressed confidence that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will take its pride of place in the nation’s polity with the strengthening of its internal democracy.

All eyes are on today’s pronouncement of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on the outcome of penultimate Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State. How the court rules would determine whether or not tomorrow’s scheduled supplementary election to conclude the November 21 governorship election go ahead.

Governor Seriake Dickson has challenged the Federal Government to absolve itself from claims made by supporters of the main opposition party in the state, the All Progressives Congress, APC, that federal might will be deployed to manipulate the December 5 poll in their favour.

As the political gladiators make last minute moves to sway the undecided voters in the Saturday polls, the PDP candidate, Hon Seriake Dickson is hoping to get the votes of the people of Toru-Ebeni, Agorogbene, Ogobiri in Sagbama council area and communities along the Otuan axis in Southern Ijaw council area following the commissioning of the long abandoned Toru-Ebeni/Ogobiri bridge by former President Goodluck Jonathan.