A former governor of Bayelsa State and Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Timipre Sylva, has been declared winner of the APC primary election in the state.
Mr. Sylva polled 726 votes to defeat his closest rival, Timi Alaibe, a former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, who got four votes.
A total of 1,502 delegates were expected at the primary election while there were 19 aspirants.
Sylva had earlier boasted that he would emerge the flagbearer of the party.
He said, “I have no doubt that, come next Tuesday, I will emerge the candidate of our great party for the December 5 governorship election.
“The primary election is just a process to our ultimate goal of retrieving our collective political destiny from the Peoples Democracy Party grabbers, who have arrested the development of the state since 2012, and fulfilling it for the good of all,” Sylva added.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole, who is the Chairman of the seven-member Committee appointed to conduct the election, had earlier been whisked away by JTF before the election.
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