Governor Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the Bayelsa supplementary governorship poll following official results collated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), today, January 10.
Seriake Dickson won seven out of the eight local governments in Bayelsa state defeating Chief Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after a supposed carefully conducted election.
Merging the result of the December 5, 2015 election, The newly re-elected Governor pulled a total number of 134, 998 votes, while Sylva pulled 86,852 votes.
Results have so far been announced in all the local governments where supplementary elections were conducted.
Before the results were announced, INEC advised Nigerians to disregard results being posted on social media,
“Fake results are being released via the social media. Those figures are not from us". A Statement from INEC reads
“Authentic results will be announced once we get them from the field.”
Congratulations to Seriake Dickson, the winner of the election.
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