Alex Otti of the Labour Party, LP, is currently leading
after collation of results of Saturday’s governorship election from 16 of 17
local government areas of Abia State.
NigerianEye reported the suspension of collation of the
gubernatorial election result from Obingwa Local Government Area.
INEC cited the attack and invasion of its office in the
council area by suspected political thugs as the reason for the suspension.
The electoral commission is currently reviewing the
governorship election result from Obingwa LGA.
However, the result announced by the State Returning
Officer, Nnenna Oti, indicated that Otti is leading by a wide margin after
winning 10 of the 16 local government areas in the state.
On the other hand, Okey Ahiwe, the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, candidate won in five local government areas.
The results collated from the 16 LGAs showed Otti is leading
with 172, 246 votes while his main challenger, Ahiwe of the PDP, polled a total
of 78,628 votes.
The difference in the margin between the LP and the PDP
candidates stands at 93,618 votes.
It is, however, unclear how PDP could win about 94, 000
voters without LP securing additional votes.
The contentious Obingwa LGA has 157, 390, registered voters,
out of which 154, 966 voters collected Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, but only
26, 845 voters were accredited for the exercise in the area during the March 18
election.
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