Governor Seriake Dickson Of PDP Wins Bayelsa Elections

The people of Bayelsa have spoken and re-elected Governor Seriake Dickson of PDP as the Governor of Bayelsa for the next four yea...

The people of Bayelsa have spoken and re-elected Governor Seriake Dickson of PDP as the Governor of Bayelsa for the next four years in the supplementary elections organised by INEC on Saturday. 

Gov. Dickson garnered a total of 134,998 votes to Timipre Sylva of APC’s 86,862 votes according to the election results announced by the INEC returning officer on Sunday (yesterday).

The supplementary elections in Bayelsa state was wrought with allegations of malpractice

and violence with Senator Ben Bruce sharing some photos of victims of violence via his twitter account.

Meanwhile, an APC spokesman who spoke to Channels TV, condemned the decision of the returning officer to declare a winner; arguing that since the number of votes cancelled (53,000) is more than the margin of difference (48,146) between the first and second; therefore, INEC should not have declared Sylva as the winner as stated in INEC's bye-law.