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He spoke in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, on Monday during the flag-off of the Peoples Democratic Party campaign.

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.

Diri emerged from the Restoration Caucus of the PDP led by Governor Seriake Dickson, who presented him as the preferred aspirant of the caucus a day before the election