Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Oil and Gas, Downstream sector, Senator Emmanuel Paulker and former Director General, Nigerian Television Authority, (NTA), and Chairman of Silverbird Group ,Mr. Ben Murray Bruce have emerged as the ruling People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) torch bearers representing Bayelsa Central and East Senatorial Districts in the 2015 general election.

Ben Murray Bruce: wins Bayelsa senate primary

However, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri lost his re-election bid to the former chairman of the Bayelsa State Scholarship Board, Evangelist Foster Ogola.

This was contained in the result declared by the Chief Returning Officers in the three Senatorial Districts and coordinated by the Chairman, Bayelsa State National Assembly Primaries Electoral Committee, General Idi Adamu, (rtd).

The results as declared are as follows:

Bayelsa Central Senatorial District;

Senator Emmanuel Paulker 174 votes winner

Bayelsa West Senatorial District

Evangelist Foster Ogola 69 votes winner

Senator Heineken Lokpobiri 0

Bayelsa East Senatorial District

Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce 138 votes Winner