Governor Douye Diri has been declared candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the governorship election in Bayelsa State.
Diri, who is the incumbent governor of the state, won the PDP ticket during the party’s governorship primaries on Wednesday.
Daily Report Nigeria recalls that the former lawmaker was the only aspirant cleared by the Philip Shuaibu-led PDP screening committee in March.
Osun State governor and head of panel for the Bayelsa governorship primaries, Ademola Adeleke, declared Diri as the winner of the election held at the Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre, Yenagoa.
According to Adeleke, Diri polled a total of 305 votes to emerge as sole candidate of the party.
He said, “Having satisfied the requirements of this election and having scored the highest number of votes, I, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke, by the power vested in me as the chairman, Chief Returning Officer, hereby declare Senator Douye Diri as the winner of the election.
“I, therefore, return him as the candidate of the PDP in the November 2023 election.”
Governor Diri, who described the exercise as “the best primaries in the history of our party in Bayelsa state,” attributed his emergence to the great understanding within the party.
Meanwhile, off cycle governorship elections for Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa state are billed for November 11, 2023.
