The Supreme Court has affirmed the
elections of governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta in the April 2011 election.
The
Apex Court subsequently threw out the appeal of candidate of the
Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), Great Ogboru.
Ogboru
had approached the Supreme court asking it to set aside its March 21,
2012,judgment which affirmed Emmanuel Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) as the winner of the election.
Great
Ogboru, through his counsel, Dickson Osuala, had argued that the Supreme Court
was wrong to strike out his initial appeal against Uduaghan’s election, even as
it agreed that the decision of the Court of Appeal was a nullity.
The
Apex Court, he argued should have heard it on its merit, or made a
consequential order remitting the petition to the governorship election
petition tribunal.
Leading
a panel of five Justices, Justice Suleman Galadima, described Ogboru's
application as an Abuse of Court process.
An
obviously unimpressed counsel to Ogboru went philosophical after the ruling.
This
may just be the final destination for the protracted litigation that has
trailed governor's Uduaghan's election two years ago .
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