The incumbent governor and the
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Seriake Dickson, has emerged winner
after scoring the most votes in the Bayelsa State governorship election.
According to the results announced by
the Returning Officer for the Bayelsa governorship election, Zana Akpaogu, Mr.
Dickson polled 134,998 to defeat Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress
who scored 86,852 votes.
Mr. Akpaogu, a professor and Vice
Chancellor of the University of Calabar, declared Mr. Dickson winner of the
poll on Sunday evening at Yenagoa Local Government, which served as state
collation centre for the Bayelsa governorship election.
Moses Siasia of the Peoples
Democratic Movement came a distant third with 1, 572 votes.
The substantive election in the state
was held on December 5, 2015 but INEC declared the election inconclusive after
it cancelled the poll in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area following reports
of widespread electoral malpractices and violence.
INEC subsequently fixed January 9,
2016 for supplementary elections in the affected local government and 101 other
polling units in 7 local government areas where elections did not hold on
December 5.
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