INEC Declares APC’s David Lyon Winner Of Bayelsa Governorship Election

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared  candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr David Lyon, has the winner of the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa State.

The Returning Officer for INEC  and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Professor Faraday Orunmuwese, announced this on Monday morning.

Professor Orunmuwese returned Lyon as the winner of the keenly contested election after scoring the highest number of votes in the poll.

The APC candidate, Lyon polled a total of 352,552 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Duoye Diri, who scored 143,172 votes.