Aspirants warm-up for the November 16, election to Government Houses in Bayelsa and Kogi States.
The race for who replaces Seriake Dickson as governor of Bayelsa State in the November 16 offseason gubernatorial election is gathering momentum. So far six aspirants have bought the nomination forms of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at N21million each.
Top among these is Timi Alaibe, a former managing director the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, who picked nomination form from the national secretariat of the party accompanied by a crowd of supporters. He became the second aspirant to pick PDP nomination form after Keniebi Okoko, son of the former president of the Ijaw Youth Council, Professor Kimse Okoko.
Others who have picked forms are Ruben Okoya, an architect, Joshua Maciver, Benson Agadaga, Franklin Erepamo Osaisai, a nuclear physicist and former director-general of the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Commission, Abuja.
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