The Labour Party candidate, Alex Otti, has been declared the winner of the Abia State governorship election following the eventual declaration, on Wednesday, after the results of the controversial Obingwa Local Government Area results.
Otti scored 175,467, Ahiwe polled 88,529 and Nwafor got 28,972 respectively. The LP candidate also won 10 of the 17 local government areas in the state, PDP got six while the YPP got one.
The Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state, Prof Nnenna Nnannaya-Oti declared Otti the winner on Wednesday evening at the resumption of the final collation of governorship election results in Umuahia, the Abia State capital over 48 hours after INEC suspended the exercise in the South-East state.
“That Otti Alex Chioma of the Labour Party having satisfied the requirement of the law is hereby declared the winner of the election,†said Nnannaya-Oti, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri.
Otti won on his third attempt. He was the candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2015 and 2019 elections.