INEC Releases New Bayelsa Governorship Election Result, Excludes APC
INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, addressing a press conference in Abuja on February 14, 2020. Photos: Channels TV/ Sodiq Adelakun.The Independent National Electoral Commission has released the reviewed result of the Bayelsa State governorship election.
INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, told a news conference that the commission took the decision after the Supreme Court sack Lyon as the governor-elect of the state. Without the votes scored by the APC, he put the total number of lawful and valid votes cast in the election at 146,999. According to the INEC boss, the total number of registered voters in places where the election was not held or cancelled as a result of sundry violations is 90,822 while the candidate of the Accord party has the next highest score with 1,339 votes.
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