INEC has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Bayelsa State Gubernatorial election, Senator Duoye Diri winner following the nullification of the All Progressives Congress (APC) participation in the election.
The Commission at a press conference by its Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu affirmed that the PDP Candidate scored 25 percent of the total votes cast in the election.
The Commission said without the votes recorded for the APC, whose participation in the election was voided by the Supreme Court, the PDP, therefore, scored the highest number of lawful votes.
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the Supreme Court had sacked David Lyon of the APC as Governor of Bayelsa State a-day to his planned inauguration as the new governor of the state.
The ruling of the apex court presided by Justice Mary Peter-Odili removed the APC Candidate on the grounds that his running mate, Senator biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo presented false information to INEC in aid of his qualification for the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa State.
The apex court submitted that there were discrepancies in the names on the certificates submitted to INEC by Degi-Eremienyo hence he was not qualified for the election.
The court also held that Degi-Eremienyo’s disqualification had infected the joint ticket with which he and the governorship candidate, Lyon, ran for and won the November 16, 2019 election.
