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10:22am – CARD READER FAILS GOODLUCK JONATHAN AGAIN!!!
Just like in the presidential elections, the card reader has failed for former President Goodluck Jonathan. INEC officials had to bring another card reader for the ex-president.
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10:19am – Fresh reports reaching NE has it that heavy shooting in Oporoma headquarters of Southern Ijaw local government area has forced residents to stay indoors.
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10:00am – “What is at stake in this election, from my perspective, is the issue of stability. Bayelsa is one of the few states in this country where no governor has been re-elected to complete a second term, and because of that, in my view, our development has also been stunted. Since the creation of Bayelsa, we haven’t had any governor do a full two terms. Each and every one of them has done one term; like D.S.P. Alamieyeseigha, a few days into his second term, his tenure was truncated, Sylva did one term, Goodluck Jonathan did just one, and Dickson is just completing his first term. This election is also a referendum on the performance of Governor Seriake Dickson and former governor, Timipre Sylva.” – Information Commissioner in Bayelsa State, Esuene Kikile
“For PDP, I think pride is at stake in this election; now, you have a former president of Nigeria who is from this state and he is a member of PDP, and you have a PDP governor who stands the risk of losing re-election. On the side of APC, you have Timipre Sylva who believes that he was wrongly excluded from the race the last time,” – APC Publicity Secretary, Bayelsa State, Nathan Egba.
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9:45am – Election material are starting to arrive different polling centers with heavy security presence.
(1.) ACPN, (2.) ADC, (3)APA, (4) APC, (5) APGA, (6.) CPP, (7) DPC, (8) DPP (9) ID (10) KOWA (11) LP (12) MPPP (13) NNPP (14) PDC (15) PDM (16) PDP (17) PPA (18) PPN (19) SDP (20) UPP
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NigerianEye will be covering the Bayelsa state governorship Elections Live on this Page.
There are 20 candidates registered by INEC for this election, however the most popular candidates are are the incumbent governor Seriake Dickson of the (PDP) and the candidate of the (APC) Timpre Sylva
The oil-rich Bayelsa State has three senatorial districts, five federal constituencies, 24 state constituencies, eight local government areas and 105 Wards.
There are 663,748 registered voters in the state. They are expected to vote in 1,806 Polling Units spread across the local government areas.
The breakdown based on gender distribution shows that men constitute 54 per cent while women make up 46 percent of the voting population.
The occupation distribution includes 250 students, 120,000 fishermen, 80,000 farmers, 70,000 civil servants and 10,000 housewives.
Already, the INEC has accredited 50 observer groups to observe the election out of which 43 are domestic and seven foreign.
Our correspondents are currently in Kogi state covering the election and reports will be updated through this LIVE elections update page.
However, NE acknowledges the power of effective news coverage by readers themselves, so if you stay in Bayelsa state, we encourage you to send us stories, photos, videos of events in your respective polling centres and in their neighbourhood.
However do not put yourself in harms way as we advice that you respect all electoral laws and ethics when reporting.
We believe election results announced at polling units are authentic and documenting them could help put officials and politicians in check. So, let us all contribute to documenting proceedings at our polling units.
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