Decision Reached on Bayelsa postponed Polls, to hold January 9

Sylva and Dickson the two major Candidates representing the APC and PDP respectively

January 9 has been agreed upon as the new date rescheduled for the governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State .  The decision was reached  at a stakeholders meeting held in Abuja on Thursday to include some units in the seven other local government areas .

The meeting, it was learned, resolved that police should play a leading role in the rescheduled poll as against the military dominance during the botched December 6 election in the area.

Also, the distribution of electoral materials is to be decentralized as against the previous practice that provided windows for electoral fraud and violence, which resulted in the alleged death of some persons.

The meeting, which had in attendance, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Prof  Mahmood Yakubu, the National Security Adviser, NSA, Major-General Babagana Monguno (retd), the governorship candidates of all the contending political parties and other stakeholders, according to a source privy to it,  deliberated extensively on the incident that led to the cancellation of the election in the affected areas and proffered solutions.