Bayelsa election: Douye Diri emerges PDP governorship candidate
- A winner has emerged from the Bayelsa state governorship primary conducted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
- Senator Douye Diri pulled 561 votes to beat his rival Timi Alaibe who got 365 votes
- The result of primary election was announced by the chairman of the party's electoral committee Darius Ishaku
Senator Douye Diri has emerged the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Bayelsa governorship election fixed for November 16.
Diri pulled 561 votes to beat his rival Timi Alaibe who got 365 votes in primary held on Tuesday, September 3, at Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre, Yenagoa.
Declaring the result, Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba, chairman, party’s electoral committee for the state, said Keniebi Okoko came third with 142 votes.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 21 governorship aspirants contested to be the party flag bearer.
Diri was a member of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019, where he represented the people of Yenagoa/Kolokuma/Opokuma federal constituency of the state.
He was later elected as the Senator representing Bayelsa central senatorial district during the 2019 general election.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that violence erupted at the PDP primary election in Kogi state in the early hours of Wednesday, September 4.
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Some gunmen were said that voting for the primary had ended and sorting of votes were already ongoing when the gunmen came to the venue at about 1:45 am and started shooting from different directions
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