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  • March 18, 2023

Just In! Labour Party’s Alex Otti Storms Ahead In Abia Guber Poll Results

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Labour Party’s candidate in Saturday’s guber poll in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti LP has stormed ahead in early results declared so far.

Otti won in polling unit 023 at St. Stephen’s Primary School with 61 votes in Umuahia, while Enyinnaya Nwafor of the Young Peoples Party, YPP, came a distant second with six votes.

Greg Ibe of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, came third with five votes as the Okey Ahiwe of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP got only two votes.

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 candidates also won in all the polling units at the centre so far declared as collation of results continues across the state.

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