The governor unequivocally stated that Nannaya-Oti was unfair to all the parties that participated in the exercise, claiming that she was “visibly happy” that she “favoured” the Labour Party.
He made these allegations while speaking on Channels Television‘s ‘Politics Tonight’ programme on Thursday, March 30, 2023.
Recall that the Returning Officer had on March 22, 2023, declared the Labour Party candidate, Alex Otti, as the winner of the Abia guber poll having polled a total of 175,467 votes to defeat his closest challengers, Okey Ahiwe of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Enyinnaya Nwafor of the Young Peoples Party (YPP) who scored 88,529 and 28,972 votes, respectively.
