Court Of Appeal Re-Affirms The Nullification Of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s Re-Election

Court Of Appeal Re-Affirms The Nullification Of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s Re-Election

The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, the Edo State capital, has
reaffirmed the nullification of the reelection of Ovie Omo-Agege, the
senator representing Delta Central district on the platform of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), and that of Francis Waive, who was declared
winner of the Ughelli North, South and Udu House of Representatives
seat on the APC platform.  

In a judgement delivered by Justice Tosin Adegoke On March 18, the
Federal High Court 1 sitting in Asaba, the Delta State capital, had
sacked the Great Ogboru/Ovie Omo-Agege factional state executive
committee of the APC led by Jones Erue and upheld the O’tega Emerhor
faction led by Cyril Ogodo as the authentic state executive committee.  

The Federal High Court also nullified all actions taken by the sacked
Erue-led executive, including ward and local government congresses,
party primaries and the list of candidates that emerged from the
primaries held by Erue’s faction, declaring it null and void.  

Following the judgement of the Federal High Court, Omo-Agege and
Waive had approached the Court of Appeal sitting in Benin to seek the
leave of the court to appeal the judgment nullifying their candidatures
and reelection.  

At the hearing of the case on Friday in Benin, the Court of Appeal
dismissed the case filed by Omo-Agege and Francis Waive seeking a leave
of court to appeal the Federal High Court judgement which sacked the
Jones Erue-led state executive faction of the APC and nullified the list
of its candidates.

After dismissing both applications for lacking in merit, the Appeal
Court awarded a fine of N300,000 each to the two party candidates. The
court said the plaintiffs could not claim to be unaware of the case, and
as such they could not seek to be joined or challenge the judgement at
this moment.