Nigeria Today! Seriake Dickson Wins Bayelsa Governorship Election

SERIAKE DICKSON WINS BAYELSA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the incumbent governor, and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Hon. Seriake Dickson, as the winner of the Bayelsa State governorship election.

He floored his closest rival, Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to win the controversial election.


Dickson polled 134,998 votes, while Sylva garnered 86,852 votes.

A total of 232,167 votes were cast in the election out of which 6,647 votes were rejected as invalid.

Moses Siasia, a younger brother of Nigeria’s Under 23 football coach, Samson Siasia, who was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM, took a distant third with 1,572 votes despite a high-profile campaign.

This followed the conclusion of the supplementary election held on Saturday. The initial election was held on December 5, 2015.

$2.1BN ARMS DEAL: TUNDE BAKARE CALLS FOR THE SACK OF CBN GOVERNOR

Popular Lagos pastor, Tunde Bakare who ran with President Buhari in the 2011 presidential election, has called for the sack of the Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Godwin Emefiele for his alleged role in the disbursement of the $2.1 billion arms deal fraud.

Tunde Bakare said this during his state of the nation address yesterday January 10th. He said;

“The CBN currently contributes negatively to the Nigerian state in more ways than one. Firstly, the CBN has become a conduit for politicians to drain the nation. Otherwise, how can a letter of barely two paragraphs, addressed to the current CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, by the then NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), become the authority to incur expenditure leading to cash flow of $37m and several million euros? In decent climes, the CBN governor cannot continue in office while the NSA is accounting for his alleged offences” he said.

Bakare said the current administration will record little or no success if the system of governance is not totally restructured “Without restructuring, this administration may achieve little or no significant and sustainable success” he said.

Bakare says his love for Nigeria has propelled him to always speak out and that all he has ever done for any government was without any monetary value or any gift that could mar his character

“Let me state for prosterity under God that I am not an agent of any individual and up till today, whatever I have done for any government, past or present, publicly or behind the scene I have done pro-bono. Never collected money from anyone nor any serious gift that could mar our character”he said.

APC GOV ASPIRANT ABDUCTED IN ABUJA

Former Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, and aspirant in the of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the state’s 2016 Governorship election, Victor Olabintan, has been reportedly kidnapped in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

According to Gboyega Ajayi, Secretary of the Olabintan Campaign Organization, Olabintan was kidnapped on his way to Abuja from Akure, the capital of Ondo.

Ajayi said the APC chieftain was kidnapped at Kwali after he was flagged down at a military checkpoint by fake soldiers who turned out to be kidnappers.

His abduction came barely 48 hours after he declared his intention to run for the APC governorship ticket in the state.

According to Ajayi, police personnel in Abuja are currently on the kidnappers’ trail.



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