The INEC collation centre in Bayelsa state has halted proceedings to temporarily go on a break as Seriake tops the polls.
Prof. Zana Akpagu, the Chief Returning Officer of Bayelsa state gubernatorial election has temporarily put on hold further collation of results from the remaining two local government areas which are Nembe and Southern Ijaw local government areas.
Akpagu informed the audience that results from the two local government areas were still being awaited.
Earlier, in the result of Ogbia local government area announced, candidate of the PDP in the election, Governor Seriake Dickson, polled a total of 13,051 votes against the 9,106 votes of Timipre Sylva, candidate of the APC
Dickson so far leads with 94,980 votes against his opponent, Timipre Sylva’s 64,621 votes.
Source: SaharaReporters