Sylva wins APC ticket for Bayelsa gov poll

Sylva wins APC ticket for Bayelsa gov poll

Former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has emerged as candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Bayelsa State.

This was announced on Saturday after the party’s primary election held on Friday.

Sylva, a former governor of the state between 2007 and 2012, scored a total of 52,061 votes to defeat five other aspirants, including the 2019 governorship candidate of the party, Chief David Lyon, in a direct primary of the party.

Sylva will now square up with the incumbent governor, Senator Douye Diri, who earlier in the week emerged the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Declaring the results on Saturday at the APC state secretariat in Yenagoa, the chairman of the APC Primary Election Committee for Bayelsa State, Maj. Gen. A. T. Jibrin (retd), said the election was peaceful.
He announced the scores of other aspirants who contested the primary as Chief David Lyon, 1591 votes, Chief Festus Daumiebi, 557 votes, Ongoebi Etebu Maureen 1,277 votes, Joshua Maciver, 2,078 votes while Ogbomade Johnson had 584 votes.
He said the panel acted on the mandate given to them by the national leadership of the party to conduct free and fair primary to choose the party’s candidate for November 11 governorship election.
He said though the the difficult terrain of the state delayed the conclusion of the exercise, they were able to conduct a primary acceptable by the aspirants and stakeholders of the party.
Two aspirants, Ongoebi Etebu Maureen and Joshua Maciver, expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the primary and promised to work for the victory of the party on November 11.

Sylva wins APC ticket for Bayelsa gov poll