The Bayelsa West Senator, Seriake Dickson, has resigned his membership of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), a newly registered political party. Mr Dickson, a former Bayelsa governor who governed the state from 2012 to 2020, announced his defection at a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday. He explained that his decision to leave the party was due to the irreconcilable leadership crisis in the PDP, the platform on which he contested and won the governorship election and his current seat in the Senate The NDC is one of the two new political parties recently registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in preparation for the 2027 general elections. The other party is the Democratic Leadership Alliance (DLA). W...