Governor Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party has sustained his lead in the Bayelsa governorship election.

Dickson had taken and early lead in the supplementary election leading his closest rival, former governor Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress with over 2,000 votes after results for four local governments were announced in the early hours of Sunday.

The results from Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and other polling units across the state were supplementary elections were held, Dickson polled 29,574 votes as against Slyva’s 14,258 votes.

In the December 5 election, Dickson secured 105,748 votes with Sylva polling 72,594 votes.


 
The results from seven local government areas which were declared, were, however, not enough to declare the incumbent governor the winner of the election due to the cancellation of the election in Southern Ijaw, which has 120,827 registered voters.

INEC has, however, yet to declare a winner as agents are making observations about the results.

More to follow…