Labour Party’s Alex Otti Wins Abia Governorship Election.
Alex Otti of the Labour Party (LP) has won the March 18 governorship election in Abia State.
He triumphed over his opponents like Okey Ahiwe of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Enyinnaya Nwafor of the Young Peoples Party (YPP).
Otti scored 175,467, Ahiwe scored 88,529 while Nwafor got 28,972.
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.