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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Duoye Diri and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa State.
The Returning Officer, Prof. Faruq Kuta, who is also the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, announced Diri as winner of the gubernatorial election at the collation centre in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, on Monday.
Governor Diri polled 175,196 to defeat his closest rival, Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who garnered 110,108 votes, while the Labour Party (LP) polled 905 votes.
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