Alex Otti Emerges APGA Governorship Candidate In Abia

Dr Alex Otti has emerged the 2019 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State. 

The governorship primary was conducted at the state party secretariat of APGA in Umuahia on Friday.

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Otti won with 574 votes to defeat his rival Chikwe Udensi who scored 32 votes.

The returning officer, while announcing the result, thanked all the delegates and aspirants for playing according the rules towards ensuring the peaceful primary election

Otti was a gubernatorial candidate of Abia State on the platform of APGA in the 2015 election. On 31 December 2015, The Court of Appeal which sat in Owerri removed Okezie Ikpeazu as governor of the state and declared Otti winner of the April 11 and April 25 Governorship elections in the state.

However, on February 3, 2016, the Supreme Court of Nigeria reversed the verdict of the Court of Appeal and affirmed the election of Ikpeazu as governor.

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