The immediate past Chief of Staff to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Okey Ahaiwe, has been elected as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abia State.
He polled a total number of 469 to defeat his closest rivals, the deputy governor of the state, Ude Oko-chukwu and Mr Lucky Igbokwe who scored 12 votes each.
The chairman of the Abia PDP primary and governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, declared the winner at the special congress. “We are very confident that the team led by Obaseki, will do a good job because the party knows the kind of man he is before sending him.“We must do everything to rescue Nigeria from corruption and poverty by starting from Abia State.”
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