BREAKING: Crowd of supporters receive Alex Otti as he joins Labour Party

A mammoth crowd of supporters thronged the Sam Mbakwe Airport Owerri, Imo State, on Friday, to welcome Dr Alex Otti, who has formally joined the rank of progressives swelling the camp of the newly-birthed Third Force, on the platform of the Labour Party.

Otti, who three days ago severed his relationship with the All Progressives Congress (APC) for not following its own rules, was enroute Umuahia, capital of Abia State, where another crowd of supporters received him on arrival at his campaign office.

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An advance crowd, led by Hon Ginger Onwusibe, the lawmaker representing Isialangwa North state constituency at the Abia State House of Assembly, had received him at Ntigha Junction (Isialangwa), for onward movement to Umuahia.

Hon Onwusibe had just dumped the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State to join the Labour Party.