The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Rodney Ambaiowei of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the Southern Ijaw Federal Constituency supplementary election in Bayelsa State.
According to the result declared by the Returning Officer, Prof. Christopher Onyema, the PDP candidate, Ambaiowei, polled a total of 13,992 votes to defeat the incumbent member of the House of Representatives, Preye Oseke, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 12,992 votes.
Also, INEC has declared the APC candidate, Obein Godknows, as winner of the Ogbia Constituency 2 supplementary election into the Bayelsa State House of Assembly.
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The result declared by the returning officer, Prof. Johnson Ohakwe, indicated that the APC’s Godknows got 5,291 votes to defeat incumbent legislator, Munalayefa Gibson of the PDP who had 4,342 votes.
With the outcome, the PDP will be having 17 seats in the 7th Bayelsa State House of Assembly while the APC will be having five and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has two.