2023 Election

LP Governorship Candidate Takes Early Lead In Abia Polling Units, Chokes PDP

Published

18 March 2023

9:44 PM

The Labour party governorship candidate in Abia State, Alex Otti won the Guber election in some wards in Umuahia.

The LP candidate polled 61 votes in the polling unit 023 at St. Stephen’s Primary School while Okey Ahiwe of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP got only two votes.

Enyinnaya Nwafor of the Young Peoples Party, YPP, came a distant second after accumulating six votes with Ikechi Emenike of the All Progressive Congress, APC; and Bishop Sunday Onuoha of the African Democratic Congress, ADC,scoring one vote respectively.

In the same vein, LP swept polling unit 022 at the same centre with 69 votes.

YPP and PDP got 6 votes each; ADC 2; APC and APGA got 1 vote each.

In polling unit 024, LP also won with 114 votes ,while ADC trailed behind with 7 votes.

YPP got 5 votes; APGA 4; while PDP and ADC scored 2 votes each.

Labour Party candidate also won in all the polling units at the centre so far declared.

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