Anosike wins PDP guber ticket in Abia, says state poorly managed

Kelechi Anosike has won the governorship summons of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, successful Abia State arsenic the enactment concluded its superior predetermination connected Sunday.

Anosike scored 16,543 votes to decision the erstwhile Commissioner for Information successful Abia State, John Okiyi Kalu, who scored 3,145 votes.

The erstwhile Deputy Chief of Staff to erstwhile Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Olugu Kalu Ugba, scored 961 votes.

The predetermination triumph was announced by the Chairman of the PDP successful Abia State, Abraham Amah, astatine the PDP bureau successful Umuahia, with the support of the PDP electoral sheet for Abia State, led by Chris Nnadi.

Amah said the primary, which was monitored by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Nigerian Police Force, and different information agencies, was conducted successful each the 184 electoral wards successful the state.

The Abia PDP president disclosed that immoderate radical allegedly refused to crook successful results from 5 wards but explained that the results already gathered from 179 wards overrode those withheld successful the 5 wards.

Speaking to journalists astatine the PDP office, the victor of the PDP governorship ticket, Kelechi Anosike, said that Abia State is affluent but poorly managed.

The campaigner promised to marque the authorities an cultivation and concern hub and urged PDP members to unite for the task of taking ...