Ogah, who hails from Abia North Senatorial District, surveyed 86,875 votes to overcome six different wannabes, including the previous Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chief Martins Azubuike, who took a far off second position with 10,889 votes.
106,160 votes were thrown amid the Tuesday's primaries in the 184 wards.
Abuja-based legitimate specialist, Chief Friday Nwosu, surveyed 3,529 votes to involve the third position, while previous Dep. Gov. Chris Akomas, scored 2,143 votes to put fourth.
Previous Nigeria's Consular-General to South Africa, Amb. Okey Emuchey, came fifth with 1,270 votes and was trailed by a previous Commissioner for Lands in the state, Mr. Paul Ikonne, who surveyed 999 votes.
The pioneer of Dr. Emmanuel Ndukwe-drove APC, Chief Ikechi Emenike, scored 455 votes to put last.
The group held its parallel direct primaries over the nearby government regions on Monday and proclaimed Emenike the victor, having surveyed 274,133 votes to vanquish Ogah, Akomas, Nwosu, Azubuike, Emuchey, and Ikonne.
The Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Mr. David Iyoha, declared the outcomes at the APC state secretariat in Umuahia at around 3.45 a.m, on Wednesday.
Iyoha pronounced Ogah victor for satisfying the gathering's necessities.
The activity, which was, for the most part, quiet and methodical over the state, saw a huge turnout of gathering individuals.
A few competitors on the stage of the gathering, including previous Speaker of the state get together, Chief Stanley Ohajuruka, lauded the national administration of the gathering for coordinating the appropriation of direct primaries in Abia.
Ogah, a previous governorship hopeful of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia, dumped the gathering for APC, in the fallout of the 2015 governorship survey in the state.
Ogah lost the gathering's ticket to Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu, who hails from Abia South Senatorial District, however was later issued a Certificate of Return by the Independent National Electoral Commission, following the judgment of an Abuja High Court, which proclaimed him the legitimate PDP's competitor.
The judgment was later upturned by the Supreme Court for Ikpeazu, subsequently his deserting to APC.
With Ogah's development, Abia APC presently has two governorship competitors.
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