Governor Diri Leads With Wide Margin in Bayesla Guber Election as Collation Continues

The People’s Democratic Party, PDP candidate in Bayelsa State and incumbent governor,  Douye Diri, was leading with 138, 009 votes, while Chief Timipre Sylva of APC trailed with 74, 255 votes in six out of the eight local government areas of the state declared on Sunday.

INEC postponed the collation and announcement of results from the remaining two local governments to noon today.

Returning Officer, Farouk Kuta, said the postponement was a result of the challenges and difficulties in the collation in some of the units in two of the most difficult areas to reach in the state.

In the results released so far, PDP won in five local government areas, while APC won in one.

Meanwhile, there was a massive protest at the headquarters of the commission by PDP stakeholders, calling for cancellations of results in Nembe and Brass local government areas of the Bayelsa East Senatorial District.

While the protest was going on, reports came that a PDP supporter was hacked to death by suspected APC supporters in Brass Local Government Area.

The middle-aged man, identified as George Sibo, was reportedly hacked down in the afternoon after he was attacked by a mob.

Some eyewitnesses claimed the deceased, a supporter of the PDP, was attacked at the Governorship Election Collation Centre at the local government area headquarters when results for some wards in Constituency 2 were being submitted.