Musbau Babatunde
Dr Alex Otti, governorship candidate of Labour Party, has been declared the winner of the Saturday, March 18, 2023 governorship election.
Otti scored a total votes of 175,467 to beat his closest rival and governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Okechukwu Ahiwe who garnered 88,529 votes in the contest.
The Independent National Electoral Commission’s Electoral Officer for Abia State, Prof Mrs Nnenna Oti, who declared the result said the Labour Party candidate was returned as winner of the governorship poll having satisfied all the conditions and electoral laws and guidelines.
Prof Oti,said the winner of the Abia governorship poll got 25 percent in 12 of the 17 Local Government Areas of the state and therefore satisfied all the conditions of Electoral Laws.
Alex Otti,described his victory as God’s ordained, even as dedicated it to the people of the state whom he said are the actual heros of democracy.