A former governor of Rivers State and immediate past Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, has been declared winner of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential Primaries election in Bayelsa State.
Announcing the results at the ADC Collation Centre in Yenagoa, the State capital, today, the Chairman of the ADC Presidential Primaries Committee in Bayelsa State who also doubles as the Returning Officer, Commodore Promise Dappa (retd), said Amaechi polled 44,404 votes to defeat former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who garnered 6,570 votes and Mohammed Hayatu-Deen 939 votes.
Amaechi defeated Atiku and Hayatu-Deen by a wide margin in the state having garnered most of the votes in all the eight local government areas of the state in a direct primaries conducted across the 105 wards in the state, yesterday, reports Daily Trust.
He said out of a total of 56,356 registered voters, 53,298 were accredited, with valid votes of 51,913 and 1,785 rejected votes.
Commodore Dappa (retd) who was flanked by other members of the committee and party leaders in the state declared: “By the powers conferred on me as the Chairman of the presidential primary election in Bayelsa State and also the Returning Officer of the Presidential Primary election in the state, I hereby do declare Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as the winner of the ADC Presidential Primary election in Bayelsa State having polled the highest number of votes in the state.”
Meanwhile, Hayatu-Deen has announced that he would not participate in the next stage of the exercise over alleged irregularities.
