Timipre Sylva, the immediate-past Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, has won the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the November 11 governorship election in Bayelsa State.
The party conducted its primary election using the direct mode electoral system in all 105 wards and eight local government areas of the state.
Sylva emerged victorious, polling 52,061 votes, beating five other contenders. Joshua Macaiver, a former militant leader, came in second place with 2,078 votes, while David Lyon, a former governor-elect on the APC platform in Bayelsa, came in third place with 1,584 votes.
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Other candidates included Prof. Ongoebi Etebu, who scored 1,277 votes; Isikima Johnson, with 584 votes; and Festus Daumiebi, who polled 557.
The APC primary election committee chairman for Bayelsa, Major General Ahmed Jibrin (retd.), declared Sylva, the exercise winner, at the party’s secretariat in Yenagoa on Saturday.
He said, “With this result, Timipre Marlin Sylva, having scored the highest number of votes cast is hereby declared as the winner.
By the power conferred on me by the APC National Working Committee, I declare Chief Timipre Marlin Sylva as the winner of this election.”
