The court gave the decision accepting the April 11 governorship race on Wednesday night however did not give motivations to its judgment.
The court turned around the choice of the Court of Appeal, which invalidated Mr. Ikpeazu's race on December 31, 2015.
The Supreme Court decided that Mr. Ikpeazu of the PDP won the legally cast votes in the April 11, 2015 race.
Full points of interest of the decision would be given on a February 26, the court said.
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The Court of Appeal, sitting in Owerri, had on December 31 uprooted Mr. Ikpeazu as legislative head of the South-east State.
The court additionally announced Alex Otti of the All Progressives Grand Alliance the victor of the April 11 and April 25 supplementary decisions in the state.
Conveying judgment in a request recorded by Mr. Otti, the five-part board, headed by Justice Oyebisi Omoleye, said the APGA applicant scored 164, 444 legitimate votes to annihilation Mr. Ikpeazu who scored 114, 444 votes.
The court proclaimed that Mr. Otti was the victor of the April 11 and April 25 supplementary races in Abia.
Equity Omoleye said the cancelation of the decisions held in three LGAs of Obingwa, Osisioma Ngwa and Isiala Ngwa by the returning officers after the outcomes were transferred to INEC wasn't right.
"In the Electoral Act, the Returning Officer has the privilege to just proclaim consequences of races and not to cross out decisions.
"This board found that the before results transferred to INEC central station relate with the right legitimate enlisted voters in the three LGAs, while that honored to the respondent shows over voting and along these lines invalid and void."
Equity Omoleye had while checking on preparatory protests and issues raised by both sides, struck out the preparatory complaints by Mr. Ikpeazu's guidance such that the request needed legitimacy.
The court likewise turned down the protest raised by the PDP that the individuals from the board were wrongfully constituted and confirmed the contentions of Mr. Otti's guidance.
The re-appraising court kept up that the lower tribunal blundered by not taking care of the considerable number of issues raised before it on their legitimacy.
"It wasn't right for the court underneath to demand that on the grounds that the appealing party neglected to show up in individual, his matter won't be given due consideration.
"For not showing up in individual, the main appealing party did not surrender his case," she said.
The court demanded that there was no compelling reason to call for re-run in light of the fact that the aftereffects of the April 11 and 25 surveys plainly introduce Mr. Otti as the veritable victor of the activity.
The court in this way coordinated INEC to issue Certificate of Return to Mr. Otti and confirm him as champ of the Abia Governorship race.
In his response to the judgment, Oracle Nwali, an attorney in Mr. Otti's lawful group, portrayed the triumph as "an end of the year blessing to APGA", saying Mr. Otti would not baffle Abia individuals.
On his part, Charles Esonu, the PDP secretary in Abia, said the gathering and its hopeful would examine the judgment and settle on the following line of activity.
Mr. Otti had continued to the Court of Appeal after the Abia tribunal gave its judgment on November 3, saying the PDP legitimately won the decision.
In that 85-minute judgment, conveyed by its Chairman, Usman Bwala, the tribunal said the applicants – Mr. Otti and APGA – neglected to demonstrate their case to have won the race ''certain".
Mr. Bwala said the solicitors had, on one hand encouraged the court to invalidate the decision on grounds that it was defaced by inconsistencies and enormous misrepresentation and then again, looked for that they ought to be pronounced victors of the same race.
He said the solicitors figured with the card peruser as a method for accreditation amid the decision of April 11 yet neglected to concur with utilization of voter's register.
The tribunal further declined to allow the candidates' solicitation to maintain the cancelation of the consequences of the race in Obingwa, Osisioma and Isiala-Ngwa North Local Government Areas of the state.
Mr. Bwala said the State Returning Officer, Benjamin Ozumba, was not permitted under the law, to drop the said results in any case, thus the consequent inversion by him had no impact.
He said the onus lay vigorously on the candidates to demonstrate certain that they won the race as they guaranteed in their appeal.
The tribunal executive, subsequently, released the request due to the disappointment of the candidates to persuade the tribunal certain that they won the decision.
Mr. Otti had encouraged the tribunal to cancel the revelation of Mr. Ikpeazu as representative, saying the decision was defaced by inconsistencies and generous rebelliousness with the Electoral Act.
He, be that as it may, encouraged the tribunal to announce him (Otti) the victor by virtue of the legitimate votes cast amid the race.
He additionally requested that the tribunal maintain Mr. Ozumba's cancelation of the outcomes for Obingwa, Osisioma and Isiala-Ngwa North LGAs.
He said Mr. Ozumba, having crossed out the outcomes, did not have the ability to scratch off the outcome and converse himself, including that just the tribunal had the ability to invert the cancelat
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