Diri, the incumbent governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, defeated his closest rival and a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Silva of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The incumbent governor polled 175,295 votes to defeat Sylva, a former governor of the state who had 110,108 according to the result declared by INEC.
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