…says victory is a referendum on his outstanding performance. The organizers of the Bayelsa State Governor’s Football Tournament christened the Prosperity Cup have expressed their delight over the re-election of Governor Douye Diri. Governor Diri polled 175,196 to defeat his closest rival, Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress, who garnered 110,108 votes while the Labour Party polled 905 votes. […]
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The re-elected Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri has promised to continue to be Governor for all. In his acceptance speech on Monday after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared him as the winner of the election, Diri said Bayelsans are too few a people to be polarized and fractionalized along political, clan, or other primordial ranks. “My […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the Bayelsa State governorship election, Gov. Douye Diri, has won the Saturday, November 11, 2023, election. The state’s returning officer, Prof. Faruq Kuta, who resumed the final phase of the collation at about 12:42 p.m. on Monday, announced that the exercise had come to an end as he was expected to formally announce […]
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Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP) and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze says it smacks of lack of proper filial piety for the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike to dare God in his determination to sustain the fight against Gov. Siminialayi Fubara, despite prompt intervention from President Bola Tinubu. Recall […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has released results of six out of the eight local government areas in Bayelsa State. The commission will resume collation of results at 7pm. The PDP Candidate, Governor Douye Diri is leading with 66,406. He has won five out of the six local government areas whose results have been released. In the results released so […]
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The camp of the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, has been plunged into disarray. This was a sequel to the cancellation of the over 24,000 controversial votes purportedly recorded in Ward 11,12 and 13 of Mini, Ikensi, and Oluasiri in Nembe Local Government area of the State by the Independent National […]
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There is a massive ongoing protest at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission over concocted election results from Nembe Bassambiri. Top Bayelsa-based civil society operatives, women groups, youth groups, state and National Assembly members, and other concerned citizens gathered at the office of INEC to protest the alleged move by the top leadership of INEC to distort the […]
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…. Staff Monitors say they were courteous, approachable, and professional. The Police Service Commission Staff Monitors deployed to the nine Senatorial districts of Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states say the Policemen on election duty were courageous and fairly contained intermittent cases of attempts to hijack the elections. A statement signed by the PSC Head of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu […]
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Bayelsa Women Arise and some other groups are set to March to the state collation center calling for the cancellation of fake results in Nembe, Brass, and Southern Ijaw Local Governments. There are reports that the All Progressive Congress, APC has connived with the Independent National Electoral Commissioner to upload fake results into the IRev portal. IReV portal is an […]
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….. Commends INEC On Seamless Process Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has condemned the action of some individuals in the Bassambiri community in the Nembe local government area where members and supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were prevented from entering the community to vote. Senator Diri, who stated this shortly after casting his vote at 8.40 am […]
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