Ogboru’s a product of illegal guber primary, says Judge, upholds Ochei’s reliefs to quash 2018 primaries results, aligns with judgment in Cyril Ogodo case

A Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State this afternoon declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidature of Chief Great Ogboru is null, void and of no effect because he emerged through an illegal primary process.

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, who delivered judgment in a suit brought by the former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei against the conduct of the APC governorship primaries of September 30, 2018, who approached the court to invalidate the results of the APC primaries, and that the list of delegates used at the primaries was not what was envisaged by the consent judgment.

Ochei also argued that the aspirants did not get any advanced list of delegates before the party primaries.

Justice Dimgba in his ruling, ordered the cancellation of the APC governorship primaries that produced Chief Great Ogboru.

According to the judge, four of the five reliefs sought by the plaintiff succeeds while relief four was not granted because it has been overtaken by time.

He said:"All the reliefs sought in this suit are similar with those for which Justice Adegoke pronounced judgment on, so grant reliefs 1,2,3,5. But relief 4 is refused because the governorship election is over and the relief is spent."

In arriving at the judgment Justice Dimgba explained that the Federal High Court has one jurisdiction and as such cannot be seen giving discordant judgments.

"Having considered the decisions reached by the Federal High Court in the case of Cyril Ogodo which has similar reliefs and the fact that some of the defendants in this suit are the same, the court has decided to follow the decisions arrived at in the Ogodo case," the judge declared.