APGA candidate, Dr Alex Otti who appeared to be the favourite among the people of Abia state to win the just concluded governorship election has lost to his arch-rival, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu of the People’s democratic party (PDP).
Dr Ikpeazu polled 264,173 votes to beat his rival, Dr Alex Otti of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) who had 180,882 votes.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has therefore declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Okezie Ikpeazu, the winner of the Abia State governorship election.
The result was declared in the early hours of today, Sunday, 26th April after the supplementary election of Saturday, 24th April, 2015.
Election was held in all the areas earlier listed by INEC for the re-run election except in Umunneochi Local Government Area.
According to INEC, the body had erroneously scheduled election there, which was not supposed to take place in the first instance because the Form, EC40G, was not filled which indicated that there was no problem in the area.
Abia State is one of the state where supplementary governorship election was held yesterday after election of April 11 was declared inconclusive by INEC.
Other States are Imo and Taraba State.
The incumbent Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has been declared the winner of the elections while the result of Taraba state election is being awaited at the time of this report.
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