The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has won the presidential election in Abia.
Obi who cleared all 17 Local Government Areas in the state, polled a total of 327, 085 votes ahead of his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, who came a distant second with 22,676 votes.
The All Progressive Congress, APC, candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, crawled behind with 8,914 votes, followed by the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, which got only 3,943 votes.
According to the results collated by the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Alex Ekwueme University Abakaliki, Professor Abel Ezeoha, the total number of registered voters in the state were 2, 120, 808.
He gave the total number of accredited voters as 384,468 while the total valid voters were 381,683.
According to the State Collation Officer, the total rejected voters were 11,646.
Collation of results at the INEC headquarters Umuahia, began around 5:56 pm Sunday, and ended Monday afternoon.
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