Otti polled over one hundred and seventy-five thousand votes to trounced Okey Ahiwe of the Peoples Democratic Party who garnered about eighty-eight thousand votes.
The Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission in the state, Professor Nnenna Nnannaya-Oti,declared Oti the winner yesterday at the resumption of the final collation of governorship election results in Umuahia, 48-hours after INEC suspended the exercise in the South-East state.
The last time the LP produced a governor in the last twenty years was when Olusegun Mimiko was elected Ondo State governor from February 2009 to February 2017.
