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EMERHOR AND APC APPEAL DELTA TRIBUNAL JUDGMENT

EMERHOR, APC FILE APPEAL AGAINST TRIBUNAL'S VERDICT OVER OKOWA’S (PDP) ELECTION
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Delta State and its governorship candidate in the April 11 governorship election Olorogun O’tega Emerhor has appealed the judgment of the Delta State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, which affirmed the victory of the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (PDP) and its candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.
In a suit filed by their lawyer, Chief Thompson Okpoko (SAN), at the Appeal Court in Benin, the Edo State capital, APC and Emerhor raised 11 grounds of appeal.
They prayed the appellate court to set aside the decision of the tribunal. The appeal sought to prove that the tribunal committed legal errors in its verdict, when it discarded their petitions and awarded victory to the PDP and Okowa.
The appellants averred that the tribunal overlooked the alleged infractions committed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the election.
The appellants, among other grounds, averred “…that the learned justices erred in law in resolving against the appellants that the petition was incompetent on the grounds of non-compliance with the procedural rule in Paragraph 4 (3)(b) of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended).
“That the learned justices misdirected themselves in law in holding that the petitioners have not been able to displace the presumption that the figure of the voters accredited for the governorship election conducted in Delta State on April 11 2015 as stated in the election results declared by INEC are less than the total number of votes returned in the election.
“That the learned justices erred in law when, having held that every voter that voted in the governorship election must have been processed through the Card Reader, went on to hold that the petitioners have not been able to prove that the governorship election held in Delta State on April 11 was not held in substantial compliance with the Electoral Act.

“That the learned justices misdirected themselves in law when they said there was no conclusive evidence that all those who were accredited through the use of the Card Readers had their data uploaded to the server, where the data used by the petitioners were downloaded.” It can be recalled that Olorogun O’tega Emerhor never won a local government in the past election and that was why he missed his chance of becoming a minister. 

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