…To deploy 2 NECs, 8 RECs to Bayelsa The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will not return to any polling unit where an election is cancelled due to violence on Saturday. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who disclosed this on Tuesday in Yenagoa while addressing election stakeholders during a meeting in…
The Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday says it will petition the state government and Governor Douye Diri to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to explain the spending of N3 billion that accrued to each of the eight local government areas of the state. The N3 billion came from the withheld 13 per cent derivation funds released to oil-rich states by President Muhammadu Buhari.