{"id":7165,"date":"2016-01-10T22:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2016-01-10T22:54:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:54:44","slug":"inec-declares-seriake-dickson-winner-of-bayelsa-guber-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7165","title":{"rendered":"INEC Declares Seriake Dickson Winner Of Bayelsa Guber Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) has declared incumbent Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson as the winner of gubernatorial election held in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Dickson, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won with a total vote of 134,998 to defeat a former governor of the state and candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) , Timipre Sylva who had 86,852.<\/p>\n<p>Total numbers of registered voters for the election was 654, 492, while accredited voters were 242,114.<\/p>\n<p>He was declared winner by the Resident Electoral Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Registered voters 654493<br \/>\nAccredited Votes 242114<br \/>\nTotal valid votes 225520<br \/>\nRejected votes 6647<br \/>\nTotal votes cast 232167<\/p>\n<p>APC 86,852<br \/>\nPDP 134,998<br \/>\nPDM 1572<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7166\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dickson.jpg\" alt=\"Dickson\" width=\"288\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) has declared incumbent Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson as the winner of gubernatorial election held in the state. Dickson, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won with a total vote of 134,998 to defeat a former governor of the state and candidate of the All Progressive Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[669,690,812],"class_list":["post-7165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bayelsa","tag-seriake-dickson","tag-timipre-sylva"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dickson.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1Rz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7167,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions\/7167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}