The Federal High Court in Abuja has released the Certified True Copies (CTC) of the judgment in the case filed by Olorogun David Edevbie challenging the ineligibility of Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, the winner of the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, held on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
The court judgement signed by the court Registrar, Blessing Chibuzo-Ugwu has Oborevwori Sheriff Francis Orohwedor as the 1st Defendant, 2nd Defendant, Peoples Democratic Party, and the 3rd Defendant, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The presiding judge, Justice Taiwo O. Taiwo in the judgment dated July 7, 2022, ordered as follows:
1. THAT the 1st Defendant is not qualified to participate and/or be declared the winner of the 2nd Defendant’s Delta State Governorship Primary elections which held on 25th May, 2022 for the purpose of electing its candidate or flag bearer in the forthcoming 2023 Gubernatorial Elections in Delta State, scheduled to hold on 11th March, 2023 by the 3rd Defendant.
2. THAT having supplied false information and submitted dubious or forged Credentials/certificates in order to participate in and be declared the winner of the 2nd Defendant’s Delta State Governorship Primary elections which held on 25th May, 2022, the 2nd Detendant herein is legally precluded from submitting, forwarding or otherwise transmiting the name of the 1st Defendant to the 3rd Defendant as the candidate or flag bearer of the 2nd Defendant in the forthcoming Governorship elections in Delta State, now scheduled to hold on 11th March, 2023 by the 3rd Defendant.
3. THAT the Plaintiff who, next to the ineligible and unqualified 1st Defendant, scored the highest number of valid votes cast at the Delta State Governorship Primary elections of the 2nd Defendant which held on 25th May, 2022, ought to and should be returned and declared the winner of the 2nd Defendant’s Governorship Primaries and, accordingly, returned as the candidate of the 1st Defendant for the forthcoming Governorship elections in Delta State scheduled to hold on 11th March, 2023 by the 3rd Defendant.
4. THAT the 1st Defendant should and ought to be prohibited, inhibited, prevented or otherwise restrained from holding out, parading and or advertising himself as the candidate of the 2nd Defendant for the forthcoming Gubernatorial elections in Delta State scheduled to hold on 11th March, 2023 by the 3rd Defendant.
5. THAT the 3rd Defendant is legally precluded or prohibited from accepting or receiving from, acting on or otherwise recognizing or giving effect to the name of the 1st Defendant for the forthcoming Gubernatorial elections in Delta State now scheduled for 11th March, 2023 by the 3rd Defendant.
6. THAT AN ORDER is hereby made disqualifying the 1st Defendant from participating as the candidate of the 2nd Defendant in the forthcoming 2023 gubernatorial elections in Delta State, scheduled for 11th March, 2023 by the 3rd Defendant.
7. THAT AN ORDER is hereby made commanding, directing or otherwise mandating the 2nd and 3rd Defendants to replace, forthwith, the name of the 1st Defendant with that of the Plaintiff as the lawful candidate of the 2nd Defendant for the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in Delta State, now scheduled for 11th March, 2023 by the 3rd Defendant.
