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Bayelsa Poll: God Answered Sylva’s Prayer, Says Diri *Unveils More Projects In Sagbama Communities

Bayelsa Poll: God Answered Sylva’s Prayer, Says Diri *Unveils More Projects In Sagbama Communities

News Feature, Politics
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has described the delisting of Chief Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the list of governorship candidates in the November 11 election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as answer to his own prayer. Governor Diri also stated that Sylva’s disqualification by a Federal High Court in Abuja was in furtherance of that prayer. The Bayelsa governor, who is seeking re-election on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform, spoke at Ofoni community in Constituency 1 as he rounded off his campaigns in Sagbama Local Government Area on Wednesday. Diri recalled how the former governor told Bayelsans through a live programme on Yenagoa-based radio stations in November last year that the chapter of contesti...
PDP TO TIMIPRE SYLVA: QUIT GOVERNORSHIP RACE NOW

PDP TO TIMIPRE SYLVA: QUIT GOVERNORSHIP RACE NOW

News Feature, Politics
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Campaign Council in Bayelsa State has advised the disqualified candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 11 governorship election in the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, to honourably step down from the race as the odds were against him. Director-General of the campaign council, Dr. Mitema Obordor, gave the advice during the party’s Sagbama Local Government Area Constituency 3 rally at Agbere community in continuation of Governor Douye Diri’s re-election campaigns. Chief Obordor, who is also the House of Representatives member for the Ogbia Federal Constituency, said unlike the PDP ticket of Diri and Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, Sylva does not enjoy any level of acceptance across the state, which is pointer to his imm...
More Trouble for Sylva as Court declares him ineligible to contest Nov poll.

More Trouble for Sylva as Court declares him ineligible to contest Nov poll.

News Feature, Politics
Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in a judgement delivered on Monday, disqualified the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 11 governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva. Justice Okorowo ruled that Chief Sylva having been sworn in twice and ruled for five years as governor of Bayelsa would breach the 1999 constitution as amended if allowed to contest again. The judge also declared that Sylva was not qualified to run in the November poll because if he wins and is sworn in, he would spend more than eight years in office as governor of the state. Citing the case of Marwa vs Nyako at the Supreme Court, Okorowo noted that the drafters of the country’s constitution stated that nobody should be voted for as governor more than...
Gov Diri takes campaign to Agge Port City  *Says Sylva worked against Lokpobiri’s Ministerial Nomination

Gov Diri takes campaign to Agge Port City *Says Sylva worked against Lokpobiri’s Ministerial Nomination

News Feature, Politics
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, continued his re-election campaigns in Ekeremor Local Government Area of the state during the weekend with a promise to provide more developmental projects in the area. Governor Diri made the promise as his campaign trail visited 14 communities in the three Ekeremor constituencies in three days. They include riverine Tamogbene, Peretorugbene, Ndoro and Ekeremor main town, the local government headquarters. The governor equally visited riverine Egbemo-Angalabiri, Ogbotobo, Aghoro and Agge, which is at the tip of the Atlantic Ocean as well as Lalagbene, Isampou, Aleibiri and Ayamasa. He inaugurated a pavilion at Ekeremor town, a landing jetty at Ogbotobo, internal roads at Aleibiri and Ayamasa as well as a newly built technical college....
Court of Appeal: Names All 5 Judges to Determine Obi, Atiku’s Petitions Against Tinubu (Full Profiles)

Court of Appeal: Names All 5 Judges to Determine Obi, Atiku’s Petitions Against Tinubu (Full Profiles)

Law, Politics
The court of appeal has unveiled the five justices to sit over the presidential election petitions of the candidate of the People's Democratic Party PDP Atiku Abubakar and candidate of the Labour Party, LP Peter Obi against the victory of the All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu in the February 25, 2023 presidential election. 1. Hon. Justice Haruna Simon TSAMMANI (Chairman) Born on 23rd November 1959, he hails from Tafawa Balewa LGA of Bauchi State. Tsammani obtained his LL.B degree from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1982. He attended the Nigerian Law School, Lagos for his BL in 1983. He was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Bauchi State on 17th September 1998 and later elevated to the Court of Appeal on July 16, 2010. He served as the Chairman of the...
APC Youth Leader, Others Defect To PDP As Thousands March For Diri’s Second Term

APC Youth Leader, Others Defect To PDP As Thousands March For Diri’s Second Term

News Feature, Politics
Thousands of youths, on Wednesday, took to the major roads of Yenagoa in a solidarity walk in support of the re-election bid of Governor Douye Diri. The youths from the eight local government areas of the state walked a distance of more than 10 kilometres from the popular Tombia roundabout to the Peace Park opposite the Government House. A prominent APC youth leader in the state, Gifted Natus, also led scores of defectors to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as part of the re-election walk for the governor. Speaking on their behallf, Natus said they decided to join Governor Diri’s Prosperity Family because in the last three years under his watch, Bayelsa State has been politically stable and peaceful. He noted that the leadership of their former party dampened their hopes and ...
Nov 11 Poll: Diri Emerges PDP Governorship Candidate

Nov 11 Poll: Diri Emerges PDP Governorship Candidate

Politics
Senator Douye Diri, Governor of Bayelsa State, has emerged candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 11, 2023 governorship election in the state. Senator Diri clinched the ticket on Wednesday with a total of 305 votes as sole aspirant of the party out of 313 votes cast during the primaries, which took place at the Dr. Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre in Yenagoa. Addressing the delegates and party stakeholders, chairman of the PDP Electoral Panel and Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, said Diri having satisfied the statutory requirements of the primaries was declared winner. In his remarks before the exercise, Senator Adeleke called for a peaceful conduct of the process in accordance with the party's constitution and relevant provisions of the c...
PDP Clears Diri For Bayelsa Governorship Election

PDP Clears Diri For Bayelsa Governorship Election

News Feature, Politics
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Screening Committee for Bayelsa State on Tuesday screened and cleared Senator Douye Diri for the November 11, 2023 governorship election in the state. The screening exercise took place at the PDP headquarters in Abuja. Senator Diri, who is the incumbent governor of the state, was the only aspirant from the party that picked the PDP nomination and expression of interest forms for the November poll. Chairman of the screening committee and Edo State Deputy Governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu, said the panel screened Governor Diri in line with guidelines of the party and as stipulated in the Electoral Law. Shaibu said the Bayelsa helmsman met all the requirements of the party for the election. He said: “We have checked the documents of...
Gov Diri Faults LP Chair On Election Manipulation Claim

Gov Diri Faults LP Chair On Election Manipulation Claim

News Feature, Politics
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has described as false a claim by the Labour Party (LP) National Chairman, Mr. Julius Abure, that the declared results of last Saturday’s election were taken to the Government House in Yenagoa and manipulated. Mr Abure alleged that the presidential and National Assembly elections results were manipulated in the Government House of Bayelsa and two other states. The LP chairman made the claim during a joint press conference with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Abuja on Tuesday following the controversy over the presidential election results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Dismissing the statement as false and lacking substance, Governor Diri exonerated Bayels...
Governor Diri Tasks INEC On Logistics Challenges *Advocates Electronic Voting

Governor Diri Tasks INEC On Logistics Challenges *Advocates Electronic Voting

Misc, News Feature, Politics
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has blamed poor logistics arrangements on the part of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the delay in commencement of voting across the state in Saturday’s election. Senator Diri, who stated this after casting his vote alongside his wife, Dr. Gloria, at ward 6 unit 4 (Kalama-owei wari) in Sampou Community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area about 10:30am, urged INEC to address the logistics challenges. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Alabrah, quoted the governor as calling on INEC to extend the voting period to accommodate those who were delayed as a result of the logistics delay. He, however, lauded the performance of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and advocated that Nigeria...