Chief David Lyon, has emerged the
standard flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for the November 16
Bayelsa State Governorship election.
According to the results
announced by the Collation Officer, Senator Emmanuel Ocheja, the oil magnate,
Chief Lyon polled a total of 42,138, votes to defeat five other aspirants.
Mrs Desiye Nsirim, came a distant
second with 1,533, while Chief Ebitimi Amgbare came third with 633 votes.
The immediate past Minister of
state for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, polled
571 votes to come fourth while Prof Ongoebi Etebu and Prince Preye Aganaba got
564 and 354 votes respectively.
Senator Ocheja, who was flanked
by the other national and state officers of the party, said he was standing in
for the Returning Officer and Governor of Yobe State, Ibrahim Gaidam, whom he
disclosed was unavoidable absent.
He pointed out that six aspirants
contested the election, adding that the mode of the primaries was ‘Direct
Primaries’ ‘Option A-4, ‘ adopted by the state stakeholders and leaders of the
party in the state and the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the party.
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