INEC releases list in Bayelsa, Delta, C-River, Rivers

Vanguard

9 February 2011

INEC releases list in Bayelsa, Delta, C-River, Rivers

Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  and former Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Timi Alaibe of the Labour Party were, yesterday listed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, among 20 governorship candidates of the various political parties in the state for the April general elections.

Among the 20 governorship candidates listed, only the Citizen Popular Party, CPP,presented a female candidate in the person of Anetorufagha Pereotubor.

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In Rivers State, Governor Chibuike Amaechi, Dr Abiye Sekibo and Sir Celestine Omehia are among the 29 governorship candidates of various political parties gunning for the plum job of Governor of Rivers State in the coming April governorship election.

Amaechi, Omehia and Sekibo, who were hitherto members of the PDP, would be slugging it out this time on different platforms.