Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo has said that the people of Ayakoro community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa deserves to produce the next governor of Bayelsa. Okpebholo spoke as a guest during the 67th anniversary of Ayakoro Annual Festival: (Eyal Obeyin) 2025 at Ayakoro community on Sunday....
Bayelsa state governorship election
The Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Bayelsa in the 2023 election, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, on Tuesday in Yenagoa formally joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). Eradiri said President Bola Tinubu is behind all the projects in his Agudama/Ekpetiama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the...
The Supreme Court, on Monday, reserved judgment in the appeal filed by Timipre Sylva, the All Progressives Congress (APC)”s candidate in the Nov. 11 governorship election in Bayelsa. The five-member justices, headed by Justice Garba Lawal, adjourned the judgment to a date that would be communicated to parties after...
Concerned members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa have called on the party’s national leadership to sanction party members engaged in anti-party activities at the state’s Nov. 11 governorship election. Speaking with newsmen on Friday in Abuja, spokesman of the forum, Dr Otiti Etionumeya, said some party...
The Labour Party (LP) Governorship Candidate in Bayelsa, Udengs Eradiri, has approached the election petition tribunal, seeking the disqualifications of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Candidate, Senator Douye Diri, and his APC counterpart, Chief Timipre Sylva. Eradiri, who rejected the results of the last governorship polls in the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Former President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Gov. Duoye Diri on his re-election as Bayelsa governor. Former President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Gov. Duoye Diri on his re-election as Bayelsa governor. Jonathan in a statement on Monday described Diri’s victory at the Nov. 11...
The PDP Governors’ Forum (PDP-GF) has congratulated Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa on his re-election. The forum Chairman, Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, in Abuja on Monday, attributed Diri’s victory to his good stewardship during his first tenure in office. Mohammed described it as a well fought...
Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has applauded President Bola Tinubu for keeping to his pledge of non-interference in the off-cycle governorship election in Bayelsa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Diri, of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was re-elected for second term in the governorship...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Governor Douye Diri, has been declared winner of the Nov. 11 election. Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Prof. Kuta Farouk, who is the Returning Officer of the election, announced the result on Monday in Yenagoa....
With winners already declared in the November 11, 2023 governorship elections in Kogi and Imo states, all eyes are on Bayelsa State as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) plans to announce the final results of the poll today (Monday). Results from six of the eight local...
The Commissioner For Information, Orientation and Strategy in Bayelsa, Chief Ayibaina Duba, has called on political gladiators to cease beating the drum of war in the state, stating that this scares voters form coming out to exercise their franchise. Duba spoke against the backdrop of the low turnout...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS SOROH, has raided a suspected pirates’ hideout at Foropa community in southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa on Friday. Director of Naval Information, Commodore Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, stated on Sunday in Abuja that the Naval Base in Yenagoa...
A day after the governorship election held in Bayelsa, serving commissioners and members of the state House of Assembly have laid siege to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Yenagoa, the state capital. At the INEC office on Sunday, the aggrieved lawmakers and commissioners insisted...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa says its Supervisory Presiding Officer (SPO), abducted on Friday, has regained his freedom. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the SPO was abducted by gunmen on his way to the Registration Area Centre – 06 (Ossioma) in Sagbama...
Sorting and counting of votes have commenced in many polling units in Bayelsa after voting in the governorship election ended at 2.30pm. At PU 10, Agric Meeting Hall, Attissa 1, Yenagoa, the voting process ended at 2.30pm while sorting of ballot papers commenced at 2.35pm in the...
Voting in the ongoing Bayelsa governorship poll commenced early across polling units in Kolokuma/Opkuma Local Government Area with Gov. Douye Diri casting his vote before 9a.m. Diri speaking after voting at his Kalamaowei Ward 6 polling unit, said the process was smooth and seamless. He applauded the Independent...
Voting in the ongoing governorship election has commenced after about three hours delay in Okpoama Ward, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa. Okpoama Ward Polling Unit-4 has 17 polling centres and is the electoral ward of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva. The...
There was early arrival of election materials at polling units in Yenagoa. At the Amarata Ward 6 in Yenagoa Local Government Area, a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Correspondent reports that activities started at 7:30 a.m. as materials were being distributed to polling units within the ward. Security...
By BARBARA KALU, Yenagoa – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said one of its election officials has been abducted in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The commission also said a boat conveying election materials and 12 election officials has capsized in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area...
The Police have vowed to go after fake security personnel recruited by politicians to compromise Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa.police Mr Daniel Sokari-Pedro, the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) for South South, told newsmen on Friday in Yenagoa that the police would track and arrest the fake...