Bayelsa APC primaries: Senator Lokpobiri rejects results of polls
Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, a former minister of state for agriculture, has rejected the results of the All Progressives Congress (APC)'s primary election in Bayelsa.
Arguing that he and his supporters did not take part in any primaries that led to the emergence of his rival, David Lyon, as party's flag bearer, Lokpobiri said that the results were impossible since he has the support of most APC members in the state.
The aggrieved senator alleged that the said primaries started and ended in a hotel instead of the party's secretariat in Yenagoa, where members waited in vain for the electoral committee in charge of the poll, The Nation reports.
Lokpobiri also claimed that the results were announced by someone else other than the returning officer and governor of Yobe state, Mai Mala Buni.
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He said that the APC's national leadership will look into the issue and bring the emergence of a candidate loved by most members of the party in the state.
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Lyon emerged the winner of the party's primary election in Bayelsa.
Lyon scored 42,138 votes to win his closet rival, Diseye Nsirim, who scored 1,533 votes. Others were Heineken Lokpobiri, who scored 571 votes, while Preye Aganaba, scored 354 votes and Amgbare scored 633 votes, while Maureen Etebu scored 564 votes.
The chief coalition officer, Senator Dangana Emmanuel, announced the result in Yenagoa.
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