Chief David Lyon of the All Progressives Congress has emerged the winner of the Bayelsa State governorship election which was held on Saturday, 16th November, 2019.

 Lyon, who won in six of the state’s eight local government areas, defeated his closest rival, Senator Douye Diri of the People’s Democratic Party.

Lyon’s victory marks the first time the PDP would lose a governorship election in the state since the nation returned to democracy in 1999.

The Chief Returning Officer, Prof. Faraday Orumwense, had after he released the result of the Ekeremor Local Government Area, which was the last being expected by INEC on Sunday night, promised that the final result would be made public before 1am on Monday.

Orumwense made good his promise as he announced that Lyon polled 352,552 votes to defeat Diri, who polled 143,172 votes some minutes after 1am.

Lyon was declared winner in six out of the eight local governments announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission at the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu Media Centre in the state commission’s headquarters in Yenagoa, the state capital.

The six local government areas won by the APC are Brass; Nembe; Ogbia, Southern Ijaw, Ekeremor and Yenagoa while the PDP won in the Sagbama and Kolokuma/Opokuma local government areas.

In the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Ogbia LGA, Bayelsa East, the APC defeated the PDP candidate by garnering 58,016 votes while Diri polled 13,763 votes.

In the same vein Governor Yahaya Bello of the All Progressive Congress APC was re-elected at the Governor of Kogi state. He defeated his close challenger Alhaji Audu, of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. According to a n ews report, the PDP has refused to sign the result, calling it as a war against democracy. Audu accused the IG of Police and the INEC Chairman of conniving to rob him of victory