Bayelsa Decide: Governor Diri Defeats Labour Party Candidate In Polling Unit

By Akinwale Kasali

Bayelsa Labour Party, LP, Gubernatorial Candidate, Udengs Eradiri, has lost his Polling Unit to incumbent Governor Duoye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Eradiri polled just Eight Votes In Unit 05, Ward 10, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state, with PDP’s Diri polling 130 Votes, while Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress, APC, polled 45 Votes as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Diri also emerged winner in the Yindimie Compound Square, polling unit 013, Ward 10 in the Sagbama Local Government Area of the state.

The Governor polled 137 votes during the exercise while the major contender, Silva gathered 55 votes from the result declared by the electoral commission officers.

Also, in Amadikurumor Compound Square, polling unit 014, Ward 10, the PDP gubernatorial candidate gathered 195 votes as against 89 gotten by the APC flagbearer. Meanwhile, Eradiri got only one vote in unit 014 and no vote in 013.