In Delta, Appeal Court reportedly walks past ‘unstamped ballots’, upholds Gov Oborevwori’s election victory
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, last Friday, affirmed the election of Sheriff Oborevwori, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Delta State governorship poll which was held on March 18.
The judgment was delivered nearly two months after the Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal upheld Oborevwori’s election.
The three-member tribunal headed by Justice C.H. Ahuchaogu dismissed the petition filed by former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege of the All Progressive Congress (APC).
The DEFENDER gathered that part of the prayers pushed before the appeal court by the APC’s candidate, like his counterpart in Kano State, was issue of unstamped ballots.
However, the appeal court, which ruled on the basis of allegedy unstamped alarming 165,000 ballot papers to upturn decision of over a million Kano voters on their choice of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, walked past it in the case of Delta.
The tribunal held that the petition contained unsubstantiated allegations, noting that it was devoid of merit and speculative.
