JUST IN: Court Nullifies Ogboru’s Delta APC Guber Primary, Upholds Ochei’s Prayers

A Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State has nullified the governorship primary of 30th September 2018 conducted by the All Progressive Congress, APC in which Chief Great Ogboru emerged as governorship candidate of the party for the 2019 Delta State governorship election.

The nullification sequel to a suit filed before the court by Victor Ochei, one of the governorship aspirant of the party who, disatisfied with the conduct of the APC primaries had approached the court seeking a cancellation of the primaries and render it invalid.

Ochei, the plaintiff in the case had prayed the court among others, the invalidation of the results of the APC primary, and that the list of delegates used at the primary was not that envisaged by the consent judgement.

He also said that aspirant did not get any advanced list of delegates prior to the APC primaries.

Delivering judgment, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba ordered the cancellation of the APC governorship primary that produced Chief Great Ogboru.

He said four of the five reliefs sought by the plaintiff succeeded while relief 4 was not granted due to the effusion of time.

He said, “All the reliefs sought in this suit are similar with those for which Justice Adegoke pronounced judgement on, so grant reliefs 1,2,3,5. But reliefs 4 is refused because the governorship election is over and the relief is spent.

In arriving at the judgement Justice Dimgba said the Federal High Court has one jurisdiction and as such cannot be seen giving discordant judgement.

He said, “Having considered the decisions reached by the Federal High Court in the case of Cyril Ogodo which has similar reliefs and the fact that some of the defendants in this suit are the same,the court has decided to follow the decisions arrived at in the Ogodo case.”