I’m the authentic winner of Bayelsa gov’ship poll — PDP’s Diri
Governorship
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded
election in Bayelsa State Senator Douye Diri has asked the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare him winner.
INEC
had on Sunday declared APC candidate, Chief David Lyon, as the winner
of the election, having polled a total of 352,552 votes to defeat his
closest challenger, Douye Diri of PDP who polled 143,172 votes.
Diri,
who led some governorship candidates of other political parties to
addressed a press conference in Yenagoa, yesterday, said the results
obtained from the PDP situation room showed that he was the original
winner of the poll, and urged INEC to declare him winner immediately.
According
to him, the results from the PDP situation room showed that the party
scored a total of 98,502 votes to defeat APC, with 55,903, before the
entire results were allegedly later changed in favour of APC.
He
said: “INEC should declare my humble self and the PDP as winner of the
election, but before we talk about that, I want to express my gratitude
to Bayelsans who turned out in their large numbers to exercise their
franchise and ensure that the will of the people to elect who should
lead them prevailed.
“I am not just saying that PDP is the
winner of the just concluded election. You recall that during my press
conference yesterday, I informed you that we have a situation room that
was monitoring the exercise across all the local governments and all the
wards in the state. As we speak today, we have the result of that
monitoring,” he said.
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