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Supreme Court Makes Final Judgment on Gbagi’s Case Against Oborevwori

Supreme Court Makes Final Judgment on Gbagi's Case Against Oborevwori
Kenneth Gbagi and Sheriff Oborevwori

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has made a final judgment on the case between the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, and Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State.

The court dismissed Gbagi’s appeal brought before it for being a waste of time, a mere academic exercise, and lacking any utilitarian value on Thursday.

Gbagi had filed the appeal against the decisions of the Election Petition Tribunal and the Court of Appeal refusing to admit fresh evidence not pleaded or frontloaded during the trial.

The Court of Appeal had held that the Tribunal rightly refused to reopen his case.

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The apex court held that 180 days for hearing the Petition had expired and that no Tribunal existed to even hear the appeal since the Tribunal had since been dissolved.

Recall that Oborevwori was declared winner of the March 18, 2023 poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission ahead of Ovie Omo-Agege of the All Progressives Congress and Ken Pela of the Labour Party, While Gbagi came a distant fourth.

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