Guber Poll: Protests Rock Bayelsa Guber, Lawmakers Storm INEC Office

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Serving commissioners and members of the state House of Assembly on Sunday morning stormed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Yenagoa, the state capital.

The aggrieved lawmakers and commissioners insisted that the election did not hold in Nembe Local Government Area of the riverine state.

However, there was tight presence of security operatives at the INEC office to forestall any breakdown of law and order.

Earlier on Saturday, Bayelsa State Governor, Duoye Diri, accused the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Timipre Sylva, of being behind electoral violence recorded in the Nembe-Bassambiri area of the state.

Diri, the candidate of the PDP who is seeking re-election for another four years in office said this on Saturday after casting his vote.

We have been raising the issue of the violent character and person of Timipre Sylva. Over the years, in every election he is involved in, you experience violence, you experience lawlessness, and even in Nembe-Bassambiri, the name and the character behind what is happening in Nembe-Bassambiri is Timipre Sylva,” Diri said.

Sylva was first Bayelsa governor from May 2007 to April 2008 and later between May 2008 and January 2012. He was also the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources from 2019 to 2023.

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