Nigeria, Nov. 17 -- The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Duoye Diri, has recorded victory in his local government.

He polled 15,360 votes to defeat his closest rival, David Lyon of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who had 8,934 votes in the final results from Kolokuma Opokuma local government in Bayelsa State.

The results were announced by Elizabeth Egbochukwu, the LGA collation officer at about 2:15 p.m. at the local government headquarters in Kaiama town.

The collation of final results from the LGA had been delayed because INEC officials in one of the 11 wards in the local government were held hostage by suspected thugs since Saturday evening.

The thugs wanted to manipulate the result...