Breaking News: LP’s Alex Otti wins Abia gov election

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

(8) Isuikwuato

APC – 872

APGA -3662

APP-

LP- 8228

PDP- 2204

YPP 0

(9) Obingwa

APC – 721

APGA -1445

APP- 192

LP- 3776

PDP- 9926

YPP-3101

(10) Ohafia

APC – 1354

APGA – 945

APP – 1013

LP  – 11,848

PDP – 4128

YPP – 667

(11) Osisioma

APC – 504

APGA – 292

APP – 123

LP  – 7032

PDP – 4697

YPP – 8839

(12) Ugwunagbor

APC -375

APGA- 398

APP- 514

LP- 2159

PDP- 2538

YPP- 1805

(13) Ukwa East

APC – 560

APGA -646

APP- 890

LP- 2273

PDP- 2329

YPP – 759

(14) Ukwa West

APC – 1209

APGA -830

APP- 699

LP- 2833

PDP- 4622

YPP – 890

(15) Umuahia North

APC – 7225

APGA – 1816

APP – 905

LP – 27668

PDP – 4843

YPP – 2999

(16) Umuahia South

APC – 1398

APGA – 1841

LP – 16,187

PDP – 4564

YPP – 323

APP – 562

(17) Umunneochi

APC – 2034

APGA -581

APP- 699

LP- 5940

PDP- 3198

YPP – 314