BREAKING: INEC Declares Alex Otti Winner of 2023 Abia Governorship Election

The Candidate of the Labour Party, Dr. Alex Otti has been declared winner of the 2023 Abia state governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Wednesday, 22nd of March 2023.

Otti was declared winner after controversial Obingwa Local Government Area results cleared and announced by the returning officers..

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 172,386 to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the PDP who scored 8,8174.

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.