Douye Diri Secures Second Tenure Victory, Polling 175,196 Votes

Douye Diri, governor of Bayelsa State and Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP candidate secures his second tenure victory after the Saturday 11 November 2023 off cycle governorship elections held in three states. He polled a total of 175,196.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC announced incumbent governor, Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state on Monday afternoon.

According to the INEC returning officer, Farouk Adamu, Governor Diri scored a total of 175,196 votes to emerge the winner while ex-governor Timipre Sylva, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) came second with 110,108 votes.

None of the other 14 candidates scored up to 1,000 votes.

At the collation centre in Yenagoa, the APC agent refused to sign the result sheet and alleged fraud. He said INEC at the collation centre cancelled over 80,000 APC votes across the state. The cancellation was not done at the wards or local government collation centres, he said. He said his party had sent a petition to INEC to review the result.

See how elections were held in the eight local government areas of Bayelsa on Saturday. Mr Diri won in six of the local governments while Mr Sylva won in two.

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