UPDATED: Supreme Court Sacks Bayelsa APC Governor-Elect, Lyon
as governor-elect of Bayelsa State, barely 24 hours to his inauguration.
The judge also ordered that INEC should immediately declare the party with the highest number of lawful votes and geographical spread. Mr Duoye came second in the election with 143,172 votes to Mr Lyon’s 352,552 votes. He won the election in two of Bayelsa’s eight local governments while Mr Lyon won in the remaining six.According to the final results announced in November last year, for Ekeremo local government, the number of registered voters was announced as 125,189 while accredited voters were 41,423. In the local government, the APC won by polling 21,489 votes while the PDP polled 18,344 votes.
Mr Lyon also defeated Mr Diri in Nembe by polling 83,041 votes. Mr Diri, on his part, polled 874 in the local government.In Sagbama, Mr Diri of the PDP polled 60,339 votes to beat Mr Lyon who polled 7831.In Yenagoa, the APC candidate polled 24,607 votes while the PDP polled 19,184 votes.
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