The Labour Party candidate, Alex Otti, has been declared the winner of the abia state governorship election following the eventual declaration 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 the Labour Party, 3,776 votes.
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.
In Enugu, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state, Dr Peter Mbah, has been declared the March 18 governorship election in the state.
Dr Peter Mbah scored 160,895 votes to defeat his closest rival, Chijioke Edeoga of the Labour Party (LP), who polled 157,552 votes.
Frank Nweke Jnr of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) scored 17,983 while Chief Uche Nnaji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scored 14,575 votes to come a distant third and fourth respectively.
The returning officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state, Prof Maduebibisi Ofo Iwe declared Mbah the winner, Wednesday evening, at the resumption of the final collation of governorship election results in Enugu, the Enugu state capita, 48 hours after INEC suspended the exercise in the state.
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