PDP wins Bayelsa Central Senatorial District by-election

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Moses Cleopas, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, as winner of the December 5, 2020 Bayelsa Central Senatorial District by-election.

INEC Returning Officer, Associate Prof. Emmanuel Akpan, of the Federal University Otuoke, announced that the PDP candidate polled 110,019 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Chief Abel Efemowei of the All Progressives Congress, who scored 18,947 votes.

“Cleopas, having scored the highest number of votes cast and fulfilled the requirements of the law, is hereby returned elected,” Akpan said.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that apart from the APC and the PDP, nine other political parties participated in the election.