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Justice served as the Abians exclaims!!

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the April 11 Abia state governorship election and the April 25 supplementary election, has been sacked.

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The story continues that the court delivered judgement on the election petition in the last day of the year 2015.

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According to the ruling, Alex Otti of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as the winner of the election, ordered his immediate swearing-in.

The APGA candidate scored 164,444 valid votes to defeat Ikpeazu of the PDP, who secured 114,444 votes.

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FURTHER MORE ;

The reactions were mostly  done by Oracle Nwali, a lawyer in Otti’s legal team, said the victory was “an end-of-the-year gift to the APGA”. He assured that the new governor would not disappoint the people of Abia.

Charles Esonu, the PDP secretary in Abia, said the sacked governor and his party would analyse the ruling and decide on the subsequent strategy.

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