The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has congratulated the winner of the just-concluded Abia State Governorship Election, Alex Otti, saying the will of voters in the South-East state was respected with Otti’s declaration as governor-elect.
Obi, who spoke with Otti shortly after his victory on Wednesday evening, said he is gratified that the will and wish freely expressed by the Abia electorate have been respected.
Otti, the LP candidate, trounced his main rivals like Okey Ahiwe of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Enyinnaya Nwafor of the Young People’s Party (YPP).
Otti scored 175,467, Ahiwe polled 88,529 while Nwafor got 28,972.
LP’s Alex Otti won Abia which had been a PDP state in the last couple of years.
