It recently made news yesterday when the Gubernatorial Screening Appeal Committee of the PDP in Bayelsa State screened out Ben Bruce.
The reasons are that he has a dual citizenship. Reports have it that the committee only cleared only three candidates to contest in the upcoming elections.
The qualified candidates are : Youpele Kalango, Christopher Enai and Henry Seriake Dickson. Reports also have it that the current Governor "Timipre Silver" was also excluded for certain reasons including owning a foreign account.