Supreme Court Reserves Judgement In Delta Gov Poll Appeal

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved the Judgement in the appeals by the SDP, Labour party and the APC challenging the victory of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori.

INEC declared Oborevwori of the PDP winner of the governorship election with 360,234 votes ahead of Omo-Agege of the APC, who secured 240,229 votes.

A five-member panel of the apex court, led by Justice Inyang Okoro, accepted the appeals by all the parties after they had adopted their final briefs of argument.

An appeal court judgement in November had affirmed his election with a three-member tribunal dismissing the petition filed by former Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege

The appellants urged the Supreme Court to invalidate the November 24 judgement of the Court of Appeal in Lagos State, which dismissed their case for want of merit and affirmed Oborevwori of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the bona fide winner of the governorship contest.

The tribunal held that the petition contained unsubstantiated allegations, noting that it was devoid of merit and speculative.

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