The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has presented Certificate of Return to the party’s governorship candidate in Delta State.
The incumbent Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, who is the governorship candidate of the PDP in Delta was on Tuesday morning presented his Certificate of Return along with other governorship candidates of the party at the PDP National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Abuja.
Oborevwori was handed his Certificate of Return by PDP National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, despite a restraining order by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
The court restrained the PDP in the interim from forwarding the name of Mr Oborevwori Sheriff Francis Orhowedor to the Independent National Electoral Commission as well as the INEC from receiving his name and acting in any manner recognising him as the flag bearer of the PDP for the Delta 2023 governorship election.
The court also restrained Oborevwori from parading himself as the candidate of the PDP for the Delta 2023 governorship election.
The orders emerged from an Exparte Motion in suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/715/2022 filed by Moses Ogege and Timinepere Ogobiri of Patani LGA Ward 8 before His Lordship, Hon Justice Taiwo O. Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division on May 31, with the Peoples Democratic Party, the Independent National Electoral Commission and Francis Oborevwori as 1st, 2nd and 3rd defendants, respectively.
