BAYELSA DECIDES 2019: LYON DECLARES WINNER, DEFEATS PDP CANDIDATE WITH WIDE MERGING

18TH NOVEMBER 2019

The All Progressive Congress candidate, Chief David Lyon, has emerged winner of Saturday’s governorship election held in Bayelsa state.

The INEC Returning Officer in the state, Prof. Faraday Orunmuwese declared the result on early morning today Monday, after much delay at the state headquarters of INEC in Yenagoa.

The returning officer, Prof. Orunmuwese was declared that David Lyon scored 352,552 votes to defeat his closest rival, Senator Douye Diri of the Peoples’ Democratic Party who garnered 143,172 votes.

After the collation of the results at the state INEC headquarters, the different votes between Mr. Lyon and Sen. Diri was 209,380 votes, which shows a wide merging distance.

Mr. Lyon, the APC candidate won in 6 of the 8 local government areas; Nembe, Brass, Yenagoa, Ogbia, Southern Ijaw and Ekeremor while Senator Douye Diri of PDP won in two local government areas Sagbama and Kolopuma/ Opukuma LG areas.

This is the first time since the advent of democracy in 1999 that an opposition party defeated ruling party, PDP in the state.

Meanwhile, Lyon’s victory at the Saturday’s governorship election and declaration by the state returning officer, has made him to be the fifth democratically gov-elect in the state since its creation in 1996.

See results below;

Nembe LGA
APC – 83,041
PDP – 874

Sagbama LGA
APC – 7,831
PDP- 60,339

Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA
APC – 8,934
PDP – 15,360

Brass LGA
APC 23831
PDP 10410

Ogbia LGA
APC – 58,016
PDP – 13,763

Yenagoa LGA
APC – 24, 607
PDP – 19, 184

Southern Ijaw LGA
APC – 124,803
PDP – 4,898

Ekeremor LGA
APC – 21,489
PDP- 18,344