•PDP seeks prosecution of offenders
AN organisation, Buhari Support Group (BSG), has charged the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, to halt his alleged actions, which it stressed, were capable of destroying the reputation of President Muhammadu Buhari.

BSG, in a statement issued yesterday in Yenagoa, specifically accused Sylva of using “Buhari’s name in a manner similar to name-dropping, with a view to putting pressure on institutions of the Federal Government to do his bidding.”

The organisation also asked the President “to prevail on him to immediately stop using your name to promote his ambition in fraudulent ways since he did not have the permission of the President to do so.”

The group said its intervention was a patriotic step to save the President and his reputation from being used to destroy institutions like the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the military and the police as a desperate political action by the APC candidate.

Meanwhile, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the arrest and prosecution of some ex-militants, including allegedly “compromised law enforcement agencies who spearheaded and supervised the brutalisation and killing of voters during and after the December 5 polls.”

The party, in a statement issued yesterday in Yenagoa by the state chairman, Chief Serena Dokubo-Spiff, said despite its petition to INEC and the leadership of the security agencies, the perpetrators were still walking on the streets freely strategising on “how to unleash mayhem in the forthcoming January 9 election.”