BOOM: Delta SDP Guber, Gbagi Fires Petitions To Election Tribunal Asaba, Seeks Annulment.
…as one candidate who scored the majority of the lawful votes during the 2023 election polls.
Following the outcome of the electoral polls on 18th March, 2023 which brought about doubt on INEC declaration of most candidates as winners of various state gubernatorial elections especially Delta state where almost all contender began to display no confidence on the entire election process.
The Governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), His Excellency, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, was not left out as has filed his petition, challenging the victory and a subsequent disqualification of Sheriff Oborevwori, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate and his Deputy, Monday Onyeme on the 18th March election.
Gbagi, a renowned Criminologist, is also seeking the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal to disqualify the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ovie Augustine Omo-Agege, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, Labour Party (LP), Kennedy Pela and their Deputies respectively.
As a former Chairman, Legal Aid Council of Nigeria, he urged the Tribunal to either declare him the Governor-Elect in the belief that he scored the majority of the lawful votes during the election, or in the alternative, nullify the entire election and order a fresh election.
Even as he came fourth with 4963 votes in the election, he sincerely scored the majority of the lawful votes during the 2023 election polls, therefore filed his petition to challenge the outcome of the poll at the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal at Asaba, on Thursday 6th March 2023.
He went further to alleged that the election was invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provision of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended and the electoral Act, 2022
To this end, Gbagi equally alleged that, the election was characterized by various irregularities including the non-qualification of the aforementioned Governorship candidates and their Deputies to contest the election.
He alleged further that, Oborevwori failed to win the majority of the lawful votes cast in the election.