PDP Sweeps Senate, Reps Seats In Bayelsa

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won all three Senatorial and four of the five House of Representatives seats in Bayelsa State.
The State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) stated this yesterday after the collation and Returning Officers of the Federal Constituencies and Senatorial elections of the state announced winners in their various jurisdictions.
A list of the winners made available to newsmen by the State Director, Voters’ Education Programme (VEP), INEC, Mr Wilfred Ifogah, stated that Chief Benson Agadaga (PDP) won the Bayelsa East Senatorial Election, comprising Brass, Nembe and Ogbia Local Government Areas.
For Western Senatorial District, comprising Ekeremor and Sagbama council areas, the incumbent PDP Senator, Henry Seriake Dickson, emerged victorious.
Similarly, former Speaker of the State House of Assembly and immediate past Secretary to the State Government, Rt. Honourable Friday Konbowei Benson, clinched the PDP ticket for the State’s Central Senatorial district, which comprises Yenagoa, Southern Ijaw and Kolokuma/Opokuma LGAs.
In the same vein, INEC, Bayelsa State office said the PDP won four House of Representatives seats in the state, noting, however, that declaration of the Southern Ijaw Federal Constituency result, which is one out of the five House of Representatives seats in the state, is inconclusive.
Those declared winners were: Hon. Marie Ebikake (Brass/Nembe Federal Constituency); Hon. Mitema Obordor (Ogbia Federal Constituency); Hon Oboku Oforji (Yenagoa/Kolokuma/Opokuma); while the incumbent member representing the Federal Constituency, Rt. Honourable, Fred Agbedi, won in Ekeremor/Sagbama Federal Constituency.
Bayelsa State has five House of Representatives seats, out of which the PDP won three, while the APC clinched two in the 2019 general elections.
From all indications, the PDP seems to have garnered more political clout with its winning of the presently declared four out of the five House seats, and also winning all the three Senatorial seats, including defeating an incumbent Senator of the APC, Senator Degi Eremieyon, who won the State’s Eastern Senatorial election in 2019.

By: Ariwera Ibibo-Howells, Yenagoa