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David Lyon Emerges Bayelsa APC Governorship Candidate

David Lyon has emerged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress,APC, for the Bayelsa governorship election fixed for November 16, Newsflash247 reports.

It was gathered that David Lyon scored 42,138 votes to win its closet rival, Mrs Diseye Nsirim, who scored 1,533 votes.

Others are Heineken Lokpobiri, who scored 571 votes, while Preye Aganaba, scored 354 votes and MrAmgbare scored 633 votes while Prof. Maureen Etebu scored 564 votes.

The Chief Coalition Officer, Sen. Dangana Emmanuel, announced the result in Yenagoa.

He said the mode was direct primary as agreed by Bayelsa stakeholders, and confirmed by the national working committee.

The Returning Officer for the Bayelsa APC Primaries is Gov. Mai-Mala Buni of Yobe.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the APC adopted the direct primaries mode to select the candidate to fly its flag in the Nov. 16 governorship election in Bayelsa.

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