Current governor and candidate of the PDP, Senator Douye Diri and his main rival, Chief Timipre Sylva, would know their fate today when the final collation of Saturday’s governorship election is expected to be completed.
The final collation was shifted to 12 pm following the non-arrival of results from Southern Ijaw and Brass Local Government Areas.
As at the last local government, Ekeremor, was collated, Diri had opened an indisputable lead of 137, 900 votes against Sylva’s 73, 503 votes, a difference of 64, 404 votes.
In the first three local government areas namely, Yenagoa, Kolokuma/Opokuma and Ogbia announced, Diri had polled 74,677 votes against his closet rival, Timipre Sylva of the APC who had polled 36,202 votes.
In the other three local government area announced, Diri combined his lead winning two out of the three local government areas announced.
In Sagbama, the governor polled 35,504 votes while Sylva garnered 6,608 votes and the Labour Party candidate, Udengs Eradiri, got 217 votes.
In Nembe, Sylva polled 22, 248 votes to win the local government ahead of Diri who polled 4, 556 votes.
In Ekeremor, Diri won with 23, 172 votes against Sylva’s 8,445 votes.
