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Inter Party Advisory Council and Coalition of United Political Parties have accused the Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Pastor Monday Tom Udoh òf working contrary to the guidelines of the Indepedent National Electoral Commission. The Chairman of CUPP, Chief Tari Edwin and his IPAC Counterpart, Eneyi Zidougha, alleged in a statement on Wednesday that the INEC REC in Bayelsa had demonstrated a brazen violation of the electoral guidelines in the country. The duo, in the statement they jointly signed called on the Chairman of the Indepedent National Electoral to redeploy the REC from the state for acting contrary to the stipulations of the electoral act.  Edwin and Zidougha said that the REC had demonstrated lack of integrity, capacity and courage to demonstrate the requisite impartiality in the electoral contest in Bayelsa. The politicians who said that they no longer have faith in the impartiality of  Udoh to preside over the elections in Bayelsa calle...

The Government House Photographer, Reginald Dei, who was shot by men in Army uniform in Oweikorogha, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area òf Bayelsa State, during the last Presidential and National Assembly elections has died. A statement by the Director Corporate Communications, Governor’s Office, Chief Nathan Egba-Ologo, stated that the photographer died after battling to survive the lethal wounds from the gunshots in a Yenagoa hospital on Sunday night. Dei was shot alongside the leader of the PDP in Oweikorogha community, Mr. Seidougha Taribi, while the duo were waiting for the outcome of the election in their ward at the politician’s residence. While Dei who was initially taken for dead survived the attack until Sunday night, Taribi died on the spot. Egba-Ologo called on the relevant security agencies to investigate the activities of the various security agencies in order to bring the culprits of the dastardly act to book. He added that while the state was mourning the...

- followers boast in Brass - say police can't withstand pressure from above The press release by the police concerning the arrest of Hon. Israel Sunny Goli with Ref No. CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.2/12 and dated 1st March, 2019 on the allegation of masterminding the assault on DCP KOLA OKUNOLA was received with mixed feelings. Those who have benefitted and those who may still be benefitting, frowned at the news of his arrest while the reverse was the case for many who have been victims of his ferocious activities. Recall that the IGP, Mohammed Adamu in a press statement had condemned the attack on the Deputy Commissioner of Police by thugs in Brass LGA and ordered the arrest, comprehensive investigation as well as diligent prosecution of persons involved, no matter their positions in the society. The IGP who described the incident which occurred on Sunday 24th February as unwarranted and unprovoked, barbaric and uncivilized, warned that such brazen acts of impunity would not ...

The Police have arrested Hon. Sunny Adi, the mastermind and ringleader of the irresponsible, unprovoked and unwarranted attack on a Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Kola Okunola in Twon, Brass, Bayelsa State, on Sunday, 24th February, 2019. Two other persons arrested in connection with the incident are  (i) Tamarapreye Victor, ‘m’ 34yrs and Azi Newton ‘m’ 34yrs. In a statement by the force PRO, FRANK MBA. Sunny Adi, a candidate of one of the major political parties in the House of Representatives Elections in Brass Constituency, Bayelsa State, was arrested in his hideout somewhere in Abuja this morning, 1st March, 2019 in a well-coordinated covert operation. His arrest is in line with the directive of the Ag.Inspector General of Police, M.A Adamu,  the immediate arrest, comprehensive investigation and diligent prosecution of all persons involved in the Sunday, 24th February, 2019 attack on the DCP in Twon, Brass, Bayelsa State. It would be recalled that while leading...

                                                                  Bayelsa State Governor, the Honourable Seriake Dickson, on Wednesday, constituted a six-member Judicial Commission of Inquiry to identify perpetrators and sponsors of the violence that rocked the Presidential and National Assembly election in some parts of the state. While swearing in the members in Government House, Yenagoa, Governor Dickson said the commission was set up in line with provisions of section 2 (1) of the Commission of Inquiry Laws of Bayelsa State. He described the crisis that marred the election as unfortunate even as he expressed his determination to bring the perpetrators to book. The panel, which is headed by Justice Ineikade Eradiri, is also to determine the number and identity of persons that were injured or killed during the ...

Members of various non-governmental organisations and civil society groups in Bayelsa State, on Wednesday, staged a peaceful protest over the conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in some parts of the state. Comrade Toitoi Newton of the Grassroots For Development, who led the protest to the Independent National Electoral Commission office in Yenagoa, told journalists that the CSOs demand a cancellation of the purported results from Constituency 4 in Southern Ijaw council and Nembe-Bassambiri in Nembe council where election materials were carted away. According to Comrade Newton, elections did not hold in the seven wards of Nembe-Bassambiri due to the violence orchestrated by political thugs aided by security personnel deployed in the community. He said the people were disenfranchisised as they were chased away from their communities on the day of the election. Comrade Stephen Seleke of the Advocacy for Peace also said anything contrary to the guidel...