BREAKING: Appeal Court Upholds Okowa’s Election As Delta State Governor

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the appeal filed by Chief Great Ogboru, the Labour Party’s (LP) governorship candidate in 2015 governorship election in Delta state.

Ogboru was challenging the judgment of the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which affirmed the election of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.

The Nation reports that in his ruling on Thursday, December 24, Justice Uwani Abba-Aji said that Ogboru’s appeal lacked merit and further upheld the tribunal ruling, which had earlier dismissed the LP’s guber candidate petition.

Earlier this year, LP’s candidate filed his petition before the tribunal challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party as winner of the poll.

In the petition, he alleged that there was overvoting as the number of total votes recorded exceeded the number of voters accredited by the card readers.

Insisting that the conduct of the poll did not comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act, Ogboru asked the tribunal to nullify the results of the poll and order a rerun. However, the tribunal sitting in Asaba dismissed the petition for lacking merit.