INEC Declares Ikpeazu Winner Of Abia Governorship Election

The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) has declared the
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,
Okezie Ikpeazu, the winner of the Abia State
governorship election.
Mr Ikpeazu polled 264,713 to defeat the
candidate of the All Progressive Grand
Alliance, Alex Otti, who polled 180,882
votes.
The result was declared in the early hours
of Sunday after the supplementary election
of Saturday.
Election was held in all the areas earlier listed
by INEC for the re-run election except in
Umunneochi Local Government Area.
INEC 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 on Saturday after election of April 11
was declared inconclusive by INEC.
Other States are Imo and Taraba State.
The incumbent Governor of Imo State has
been declared the winner of the elections
while the result of Taraba state election is
being awaited.
Supplementary House of Assembly election
was also held in some other states in areas
where elections had been declared
inconclusive. The elections were adjudged
peaceful.