The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, David Lyon, winner of the November 16 Bayelsa governorship election.

INEC’s Returning Officer of the election and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Professor Faraday Orunmuwese, around 1:0oam on Monday declared Lyon winner of the poll.

He said, Lyon, having satisfied the electoral criteria by scoring the highest number of vote cast was hereby declared winner of the governorship poll.

He disclosed that the APC polled 352,552 votes while the PDP scored 143,172.