Dr Alex Otti
The Labour Party candidate, Alex Otti, has been declared the winner of the Abia State governorship election following the eventual declaration, on Wednesday, of the results of the controversial Obingwa Local Government Area results.
With the conclusion of the collation of the outstanding results of the election, the Peoples Democratic Party scored 9,962 votes and while the Labour Party, 3,776 votes in the LGA.
Consequently, the LP has won in 10 LGAs, the PDP in six LGAs, and the Young Peoples Party in one LGA.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Abia State, Chief Alex Otti, was, consequently declared the winner of the 2023 governorship election in Abia State.
Otti polled a total of 175,466 to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the PDP who scored 88,526.
The Returning Officer, Prof. Nnenna Oti, declared the LP candidate the winner at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Umuahia, the state capital, Wednesday afternoon after completing the suspended collation of results.
The distribution of the governorship election results across the 17 LGAs of Abia State is as follows:
(1) Aba North
APC – 487
APGA -1404
APP- 549
LP- 20974
PDP- 4146
YPP- 2296
(2) Aba South
APC – 487
APGA – 1470
LP – 20,974
PDP – 4146
YPP – 2296
(3) Arochukwu
APC -1082
APGA -460
APP- 893
LP- 12689
PDP- 1280
YPP- 410
(4) Bende
APC – 2143
APGA -947
APP- 2733
LP- 9886
PDP- 5410
YPP – 1667
(5) Ikwuano
APC -1198
APGA- 499
APP-515
LP-7054
PDP-2427
YPP-270
(6) Isialangwa North
APC – 838
APGA -225
APP- 78
LP- 7327
PDP- 21741
YPP 18
(7) Isialangwa South
APC – 1580
APGA -366
APP- 134
LP- 7589
PDP- 9093
YPP 1691
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