Collation of Results of Bayelsa State Governorship Poll Continues Today
Meanwhile, the collation of results of Bayelsa State Governorship Poll continues today.
The collation was shifted to Monday, following protests by some of the political parties on Sunday, as well as crisis in some parts of the state.
For instance, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday night said, its staff were being held hostage in brass local government area.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), however, accused All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Timipire Sylva of bringing thugs into INEC office in Brass Island.
The state PDP spokesman, Ebiye Ogoli alleged that thugs held INEC staff and others hostage in the collation center.
In the process, he said one of the thugs was killed in town brass.
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Resumption of the State Collation of the Bayelsa State governorship election results from the remaining two local government areas of Brass and Southern Ijaw has not yet commenced Monday.
The exercise is scheduled to take place at the State Collation Centre in the Prof Mahmood Yakubu Media Centre INEC state office, Yenagoa.
The commission had shifted the collation of results from Brass and Southern Ijaw from 7 pm on Sunday to 12 noon today, Monday.
As of Sunday, the INEC State Returning Officer for the Bayelsa State governorship polls, Prof Kuta Farouq, had presided over the collation of results from six local governments, namely, Yenagoa, Ogbia, Nembe, Ekeremor, Sagbama, and Kolokuma/Opokuma.
The incumbent governor and candidate of the PDP, Douye Diri, was in the lead with 137,909 votes from five of the six local governments, while his main challenger, Timipre Sylva of the APC, had polled 703, 503 votes, winning only Nembe Local Government Area.
The Head, Department Voter Education and Publicity INEC state office, Yenagoa, Mr Wilfred Ifogah, had announced at 7:35 pm on Sunday that the collation would continue at 12 noon today, Monday.
But as of 12:15 pm, the exercise was to resume, and INEC had yet to arrive at the centre.
