The Governorship of the Labour Party (LP), Alex Otti, has won the election and declared Governor-elect of Abia State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday on completion of the review of the disputed results and okayed the continuation of results collation from the council.
Penpushing reports that the Returning Officer for the election, Prof Nnenna Oti, made the declaration at the State Collation Centre, Umuahia, the state capital, explaining that this followed collating results from Obingwa Local Government Area of the state..
The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, said the Labour Party (LP) polled a total of 3,776 while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Okey Ahiwe, scored a total of 9,962 votes.
Penpushing further reports that Oti said the final results showed that the Labour Party (LP) candidate won in 10 local government areas while the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) candidate won in six local government areas, while the candidate of the Young Progressives Party(YPP) won in Osisioma Local Government Area, where he hails from.
Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) it is recalled had, on Monday, suspended the collation of governorship results from the council area over an alleged attack on its officials and irregularities.
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