Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has emerged the consensus candidate in the Labour Party Governorship Primary Election in Abia, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
NAN reports that all candidates for the State House of Assembly, House of Representatives and the Senate emerged through a consensus candidature process.
NAN further reports that the party conducted primary elections in which delegates across all political wards of the state overwhelmingly endorsed the consensus candidates.
In her speech announcing the results on Saturday in Umuahia, the Returning Officer for the Labour Party Primary elections in Abia, Mrs Oluchi Opara, affirmed that the exercise was conducted through direct primaries across the state’s political wards.
Opara, who is also the party’s Electoral Committee Chairman, stated that the primary election was held in substantial compliance with the provisions of the Labour Party Constitution.
