Supreme Court To Give Verdict On Delta PDP Governorship Ticket On Oct. 21

The Supreme Court has on Wednesday scheduled judgment on the dispute over who should be the candidate for the next governorship election in Delta State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for October 21.

Naija News reports that a five-member panel presided over by Justice Amina Augie announced the date after arguments from lawyers of parties in the appeal filed by David Edevbie against the August 29 judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja.

The Court of Appeal had, in its judgment reversed the July 7 judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja which voided the nomination of Speaker Sheriff Oborevwori.

Oborevwori came first in the party’s governorship primary held on May 25, but Edevbie challenged Oborevwori’s nomination, claiming that he (Oborevwori) submitted false documents to the PDP, by virtue of which he ought not to be allowed to participate in the primary.

However in a judgment on July 7, 2022, by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja upheld Edevbie’s claims and voided Oborevwori’s nomination, a decision that was reversed on August 29, 2022, by the Court of Appeal in Abuja.

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