The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in three separate appeals that seek to void the election of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State.
The appeals were brought before the court by the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in the March 18 governorhip poll, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, as well as flagbearers of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, and Labour Party, LP, Kenneth Gbaji and Ken Pela, respectively.
A five-member panel of the apex court, led by Justice Inyang Okoro, gave nod to the appeals for judgment, after all the parties adopted their final briefs of argument.
Specifically, the appellants, through their respective counsel, urged the Supreme Court to invalidate the November 24 judgment of the Court of Appeal in Lagos State, which dismissed their case for want of merit and affirmed Oborevwori as the bonafide winner of the governorship contest.
They equally criticized an earlier verdict of the Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, which on September 29, upheld Oborevwori’s election.
Omo-Agege, the immediate past Deputy President of the Senate, contended that the election was not conducted in substantial compliance with provisions of the Electoral Act.
He informed the Supreme Court that the results of the governorship election were not properly recorded at some polling units, adding that the forms that contained some of the recorded results did not have serial numbers.
While the SDP candidate, Gbagi, prayed the court to declare that Oborevwori was not eligible to contest the election, his counterpart in the LP, Pela, urged the Supreme Court to nullify the entire election and order a fresh one.
