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The Independent National Electoral Commission (lNEC) has shifted the date for the Kogi and Bayelsa States governorship election earlier scheduled for Nov. 2 to Nov. 16. The Commission disclosed this in a statement issued by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okye on Thursday in Abuja. The decision, according to Okoye, was taken at the commission’s regular weekly meeting held on Thursday, following several appeals received by INEC from critical stakeholders from Bayelsa demanding for a change in the earlier fixed date. “It will be recalled that on April 9, lNEC released the timetable and schedule of activities for the Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections. The Commission fixed Nov. 2 for the elections to hold in both states. “However, the Commission received several appeals from Bayelsa that the election coincided with the state’s Annual Thanksgiving Day which is backed by law. “After a careful consideration of the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday authorised the removal of 26 heads of various federal government agencies and parastatals, according to a statement from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF). The long awaited, but sudden, sack of the heads of the federal government parastatals seems to have taken some of those affected by surprise. LEADERSHIP’s checks revealed that most of them were shocked by the development. This purge, it was learnt, was carried out by President Buhari to settle the ongoing clash of interest between advocates of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda and the incumbent’s change mantra. Sources within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said that following undue pressure from politicians, who had complained that the agencies’ chief executives had been allowed to stay for too long, the president moved quickly to effect the sack order on his first day in office after his brief leave. LEADERSHIP ...