#BayelsaDecides: LIVE Updates Of Bayelsa 2015 Governorship Election

7:40 pm -INEC postpones election in Southern Ijaw till tomorrow, Sunday.
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7:00 pm -APC supporters in Yenagoa move into the street to celebrate victory at their polling unit.
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6:00 pm - Results have started trickling from some polling units.
Results as announced at Ward 4, Unit 11, Agudama, Yenagoa LGA
APC: 115
PDP: 98
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Results as announced at Ward 5, Unit 11, Finimamighafi compound, Yenagoa: PDP 86, APC 46.


3:09 pm -Violence reported in Brass LGA. A house belonging to acting chairman of PDP in Bayelsa have been burnt down.
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3:00 pm -15 more thugs arrested by the police and the JTF in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area over election violence
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2:00 pm - Former president Goodluck Jonathan votes at Ward 13, Unit 39 in Otuoke.

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1:00 pm - INEC Electoral Officer for Southern Ijaw Local Government Area has announced the cancellation of election in the council. The new date for the election will be announced later. TBA #BayelsaDecides

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12:41 pm - Heavy shooting ongoing in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area. An eyewitness said militants with links to a political part were responsible for the shooting. The development has led to low voter turnout in the LGA, which is considered on of the flashpoints in the state.
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12:38 pm -

Candidate for the APC, Timipre Sylva, has been accredited  at Unit 4 Ward 4 in Opoama Brass. He had no issue with PVC but said he noticed some eligible voters had issue with theirs. He urged the INEC to do something about the technology.
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12:30 pm - Soldiers heading towards an unrest zone following reports that some INEC Ad-hoc staffs were being threatened by Brass boys


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12:22 pm - Ongoing Voters accreditation at unit 2, ward 5 in Yenogoa LG.

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10:22am -  

After the a battle with the card reader, former President Jonathan speaks with newsmen after his accreditation advising the Bayelsa people to be calm for the conduct of a credible election in the area.

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10:22am -  CARD READER FAILS GOODLUCK JONATHAN AGAIN!!!
Just like in the presidential elections, the card reader has failed for former President Goodluck Jonathan. INEC officials had to bring another card reader for the ex-president.

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10:19am - Fresh reports reaching NE has it that heavy shooting in Oporoma headquarters of Southern Ijaw local government area has forced residents to stay indoors.
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10:00am - “What is at stake in this election, from my perspective, is the issue of stability. Bayelsa is one of the few states in this country where no governor has been re-elected to complete a second term, and because of that, in my view, our development has also been stunted. Since the creation of Bayelsa, we haven’t had any governor do a full two terms. Each and every one of them has done one term; like D.S.P. Alamieyeseigha, a few days into his second term, his tenure was truncated, Sylva did one term, Goodluck Jonathan did just one, and Dickson is just completing his first term. This election is also a referendum on the performance of Governor Seriake Dickson and former governor, Timipre Sylva.” - Information Commissioner in Bayelsa State, Esuene Kikile

“For PDP, I think pride is at stake in this election; now, you have a former president of Nigeria who is from this state and he is a member of PDP, and you have a PDP governor who stands the risk of losing re-election. On the side of APC, you have Timipre Sylva who believes that he was wrongly excluded from the race the last time,” – APC Publicity Secretary, Bayelsa State, Nathan Egba.


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9:45am - Election material are starting to arrive different polling centers with heavy security presence.

6:29am - 20 candidates are contesting for governorship election in Bayelsa State. The parties are

(1.) ACPN, (2.) ADC, (3)APA, (4) APC, (5) APGA, (6.) CPP, (7) DPC, (8) DPP (9) ID (10) KOWA (11) LP (12) MPPP (13) NNPP (14) PDC (15) PDM (16) PDP (17) PPA (18) PPN (19) SDP (20) UPP


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NigerianEye will be covering the Bayelsa state governorship Elections Live on this Page.


There are 20 candidates registered by INEC for this election, however the most popular candidates are are the incumbent governor Seriake Dickson of the (PDP) and the candidate of the (APC) Timpre Sylva

The oil-rich Bayelsa State has three senatorial districts, five federal constituencies, 24 state constituencies, eight local government areas and 105 Wards.

There are 663,748 registered voters in the state. They are expected to vote in 1,806 Polling Units spread across the local government areas.

The breakdown based on gender distribution shows that men constitute 54 per cent while women make up 46 percent of the voting population.

The occupation distribution includes 250 students, 120,000 fishermen, 80,000 farmers, 70,000 civil servants and 10,000 housewives.

Already, the INEC has accredited 50 observer groups to observe the election out of which 43 are domestic and seven foreign.

Our correspondents are currently in Kogi state covering the election and reports will be updated through this LIVE elections update page.

However, NE acknowledges the power of effective news coverage by readers themselves, so if you stay in Bayelsa state, we encourage you to send us stories, photos, videos of events in your respective polling centres and in their neighbourhood.

However do not put yourself in harms way as we advice that you respect all electoral laws and ethics when reporting.

We believe election results announced at polling units are authentic and documenting them could help put officials and politicians in check. So, let us all contribute to documenting proceedings at our polling units.
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