RURAL PEOPLES ASSEMBLY

In a swift twist of fate, Liberation Movement, one of the political parties who hitherto contested and lost the Gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State and went ahead to challenge the outcome of the Bayelsa State Gubernatorial election at the Tribunal has moved to arrest and prosecute some of its prominent ambassadors, members and legal team over alleged criminal breach of trust, gross misconduct and breach of the party's constitution and principles. The party arrived at this decision after its emergency Bayelsa State stakeholder meeting of members on 18th of November, 2020 held to appraise the circumstances that led to the withdrawal of the suit filed by the Candidate of Liberation Movement Mr. Vijah I Opuama, at the Supreme Court of Nigeria, following an appeal made to the Supreme Court from the loss of the case at the Tribunal and Court of Appeal stages of the litigation seeking to disqualify Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo and Senator Douye Diri of the PDP for submitting false inf...

Liberation Movement - Bayelsa State Plans Massive Election Monitoring and Management awareness programme. The project is aimed at enlightening the general public on how they can monitor and manage elections within their voting points, polling units, wards and Local Government areas as the primary locations where rigging and election manipulations take place, for effective, result oriented, citizens participation mechanism for solving rigging and subversion of the will of the people during polls in Nigeria. The project which is a public lecture series x-raying the shortcoming of the electoral process with a view to profferring lasting solutions to electoral malpractice in Nigeria, shall hold continuously until the 105 wards in the state are sufficiently empowered with information, knowledge and strategy that would help them gain confidence in the electoral process in Bayelsa State and Nigeria. According to the State Chairman of the party Barr. ANISO O. ABRAHAM, the timetable...