BY GORDI UDEAJAH
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was declared the winner in the Abia State All Progressive Congress APC presidential primary election held on Saturday 23rd of May 2026.
His victory over his rival Mr Stanley Osifo was declared by the Abia State presidential primary Returning Officer Rt Hon Benjamin Okezie Kalu, who is the deputy Speaker, House of Representatives.
Hon Kalu announced that Tinubu polled a total of 161, 005 votes against Osifo’s total 1,007, describing the primary election as peacefully and successfully conducted in the 184 wards of the state.
He said that the results from the Wards were first submitted to the Local Government Area Coordinators, who re- submitted them to the party’s state Secretariat at Umuahia, the state capital , where they were finally collated before declaration.
According to Hon Kalu, going by these results, ” President Bola Ahmed TInubu has emerged the winner of the Abía APC Presidential primary in Abia State, having had the highest vote score in the primary election”.
