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Bayelsa: INEC gives Diri certificate of return
The Independent National Electoral Commission has issued a Certificate of Return to the Bayelsa State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Douye Diri, who won the November 11 governorship election in the state. The INEC national commissioner supervising Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Bayelsa, May Agbamuche-Mbu, handed the certificate of return to Diri at […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsBayelsa: PDP govs commend INEC, congratulates Diri
Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party have congratulated the Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri on his re-election victory in the Saturday governorship election. The PUNCH reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission, Bayelsa State Returning Officer, Prof Faruq Kuta, who is also the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, announced Diri winner […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsGov Diri wins Bayelsa guber, defeats APC’s Sylva
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Douye Diri, as the winner of the Bayelsa State governorship election held on Saturday, November 11. The state’s Returning Officer of the commission, Prof. Faruq Kuta announced Diri after receiving the final result from Southern Ijaw out of […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsVIDEO: Party agents fight at Bayelsa collation centre
The Bayelsa State Collation Centre was thrown into disarray as an agent of the Accord Party and his All Progressives Congress counterpart fought on Monday, during a disagreement.
Check This Bayelsa NewsBalyesa: APC Publicity Secretary commends INEC over guber election
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Public Secretary, Mr. Doifie Boukoribo in Bayelsa has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the success so far recorded in the on-going governorship election of the state. He gave this commendation shortly after casting his vote in polling unit 4, ward 4, Okpo Play Ground II, Okpoama Brass […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsSokoto: UNICEF, SPHCDA collaborates with media on zero-dose reduction campaign
In a concerted effort to raise awareness and enhance routine immunization among children, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with state primary health care development agencies, has engaged the media to disseminate information to the general public. The two-day dialogue with journalists from Abuja, Zamfara, Kebbi, and Sokoto States was held at the […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsKidnapped Bayelsa INEC officer regains freedom
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Saturday announced that one of its Supervisory Presiding Officers, who was abducted at the Amassoma jetty in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on the eve of the governorship election, has been released. A statement signed by the Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity, INEC office, […]
Check This Bayelsa News#BayelsaDecides2023: LP gov candidate faults process, alleges vote-buying
The Labour Party governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Udengs Eradiri, on Saturday, faulted the conduct of Saturday’s governorship election in the state, saying it was fraught with irregularities bordering on alleged selling and buying of votes. He also claimed that the identities of LP polling agents were changed by INEC prior to election day. Speaking […]
Check This Bayelsa News#BayelsaDecides2023: NDDC boss says process peaceful, lauds INEC
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Chief Samuel Ogbuku, has described the electoral process in the Bayelsa State governorship election as peaceful. Ogbuku, who spoke to journalists shortly after casting his vote at Unit 001 in Ward 3 of Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, said that […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsOff-cycle Elections: CODE Raises Concerns In Bayelsa, Imo
A civil society organisation, Connected Development (CODE), has raised the alarm on significant developments highlighted by its observers during the Saturday’s off-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa and Imo States. CODE restated its commitment to empowering marginalized communities through information, technology, and social media, using its election intelligence tool – UZABE, to monitor the elections in […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsBayelsa poll: APC, PDP trade blame over violence, voters intimidation
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State have accused each other of intimidating voters in some parts of the state in the Saturday governorship election. The APC governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, after casting his vote at Polling Unit 4, Dukuraku Central Open Space, Okpoama, Ward 4 in […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsINEC official kidnapped in Bayelsa, result sheets lost in capsized boat
The Independent National Electoral Commission has reported the abduction of one of its officials in the Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. In a statement on Friday, Wilfred Ifogah, head of INEC voters’ registration in the state, said the electoral official was kidnapped while waiting to board a boat at the jetty. In a […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsTop INEC Official Abducted In Bayelsa
Less than 24 hours to the governorship election in Bayelsa State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed the abduction of a Supervisory Presiding Officer (SPO) assigned to Registration Area – 06 (Ossioma) in Sagbama local government area of the State. In a statement issued late Friday night in Yenagoa and signed by the […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsSoldiers, policemen beef up security around Bayelsa INEC office
Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa State, there is a heavy security presence at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Swali, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. On Friday afternoon, the entrance leading to the office was cordoned off by fierce-looking armed soldiers who mounted a blockade with sandbags while […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsBayelsaDecides2023: Between ‘Supreme Court governor’ and perennial candidate
There are 16 candidates in Saturday’s election, however, the race is a two-horse race between Messrs Diri and Sylva.
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Thugs attack Bayelsa PDP chieftain’s residence, two injured
Suspected political thugs on Tuesday attacked the residence of a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State, Chief Diekivie Ikiogha, in the Kpansia area of Yenagoa, the state capital. They were said to have thrown an explosive believed to be dynamite into the building around 2 am. Similarly, two unidentified persons were also […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsBayelsa Guber: Criminals will have tough time with police, IGP warns
Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), has assured that with the level of deployment of officers and equipment for the off-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa State on 11th November 2023, criminal elements in the state will face a tough challenge from the police. Speaking during stakeholders meeting with traditional leaders, party executives, police […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsINEC adds Sylva to Bayelsa gov candidates list
The Independent National Electoral Commission has released an amended list of candidates for Bayelsa State governorship election. According to the amended list uploaded on the commission’s website on Monday, the names of Timipre Sylva and his running mate, Joshua Maciver of the All Progressives Congress made the list. The list was signed by the Secretary […]
Check This Bayelsa NewsBayelsa guber: Appeal Court nullifes sack of APC’s Sylva
The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, reversed the nullification of the candidacy of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva in the forthcoming November 11, 2023 governorship election in Bayelsa. The appellate court in a judgment, held that Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja was wrong in ordering […]
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