#BBB NEWS| Seriake Dickson Re-Elected As Governor Of Bayelsa State

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally declared a winner for the highly contentious gubernatorial election in Bayelsa following a supplementary election held on Saturday.

After declaring the results of six other LGAs where supplementary elections held on Saturday, January 9th, and after INEC took a short break waiting for a final collation of election results for Southern Ijaw LGA, the electoral body has concluded the exercise.

However, after resuming to the collation center, a final declaration of results were made which put Governor Seriake Dickson of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as the official winner of the election.

Todays collation included election results from Nembe, Ekeremor, Brass, Southern Ijaw, Ogbia, Yenagoa and Sagbama local government areas of the Niger Delta state.

Below is the final result announced by INEC returning officer in Yenagoa today

Total Registered Voters: 654,493
Accredited Voters: 242,114

APC:  86, 852
PDP: 134, 998
Margin: 48,148
Total Valid Votes: 225, 520

Total rejected votes -6647



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