The Labour Party candidate for Isiala Ngwa North and South federal constituency, Hon. Ginger Onwubibe, has emerged as the winner of Saturday’s poll.
Ginger a former Council Chairman, defeated Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s preferred candidate and his immediate past Chief of Staff, Professor Anthony Agbazuere, even in his Isialangwa South L.G.A.
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He polled 20,411 votes to floor his closest rival, Agbazuere of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, who scored 13,508 votes while the APC got 2, 976.
Onwubibe, a member of the Abia State House of Assembly, left the PDP last year and defected to Labour Party following some loggerheads with the State Governor.