Abia State governor-elect, Alex Otti said he won a gubernatorial contest several years ago without the influence of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi.
Otti, who made this revelation on Channels Television, reiterated that he won the 2015 election that produced Okezie Ikpazu as governor under the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced Otti as winner of the Saturday March 18 poll on Wednesday. He also insisted that he has been a member of the Labour Party before Peter Obi.
He said, “In 2015 when I ran under APGA, there was no Peter Obi. And we have it on our record that I won that election. At the time we were joining the Labour Party, Peter Obi had not joined.
“It took about a week before he called me and said that he purchased the presidential nomination form and he was coming to the Labour Party,” he said.
He, however, appreciated Obi’s influence in the last election, claiming Obi “came to Abia about four times to campaign for us.
“Peter Obi is a great addition to our campaign, but I can tell you that we won an election before in Abia without him.”
