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BREAKING: Results Announced So Far As INEC Adjourns Bayelsa Collation Till 3pm

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November 12, 2023

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BREAKING: Results Announced So Far As INEC Adjourns Bayelsa Collation Till 3pm

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On Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) adjourned the collation of election results for the Bayelsa State Governorship Elections held on November 11, 2023.

The adjournment occurred approximately two hours into the process, which had been previously adjourned the night before.

Professor Faruq Kuta, the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, and the state Returning Officer for the Bayelsa election, announced the adjournment until 3 pm later today.

The collation had progressed through results from three of the eight local government areas: Kolokuma/Opokuma, Ogbia, and Yenegoa.

The outstanding local government areas include Brass, Ekeremor, Nembe, Sagbama, and Southern Ijaw. The returning officer stated that results from these remaining areas were awaited.

Sixteen political parties fielded candidates for the Bayelsa election. In this contest, Governor Duoye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faced his main opponent, Timipre Sylva, a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and ex-governor of the state, who ran on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Sylva, who served as Bayelsa governor from May 2007 to April 2008 and later from May 2008 to January 2012, vied for the position against a backdrop of political competition.

While results were still being collated in Kogi, INEC declared a winner in Imo, where Governor Hope Uzodimma of the APC emerged victorious, defeating Samuel Anyanwu of the PDP, Labour Party (LP)’s Nneji Achonu, and 15 other opponents. Uzodimma secured 540,308 votes, surpassing PDP’s Anyanwu with 71,503 votes and LP’s Achonu with 64,081 votes.

See Bayelsa Results So Far:

Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA

65,364 Number of Registered voters

24171 Accredited Voters

APC – 5349

LP – 22

PDP – 18465

Ogbia LGA:

Number of Registered voters: 119571

Accredited Voters: 36955

APC – 16319

LP – 57