The Independent National Electoral Commission has said collation of results for Saturday November 11 Governorship election in Bayelsa State will begin by 10 am today(Sunday).
The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Obo Effanga, made this known in Bayelsa, on Sunday morning.
Voting ended in all eight local government areas of the state on Saturday, even as INEC began uploading the results to its IREV portal.
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So far the results on the INEC’s IREV show that the incumbent governor and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Douye Diri, is in the early lead followed by his major rival and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Timipre Sylva.