Court disqualifies Delta State PDP governorship candidate Oborevwori

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has disqualified the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate for the 2023 election in Delta State, Sheriff Oborevwori.

Justice Taiwo Taiwo who gave the order said Oborevwori ought not to be on the 2023 governorship election for the PDP, on account of allegedly supplying false and forged documents to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in aid of his qualification for the governorship election.

The judge subsequently directed INEC and the PDP to recognise the plaintiff, Olorogun David Edevbie, as candidate of the PDP in the 2023 governorship election in Delta State, scheduled to hold on March 11, 2023.

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Oborevwori, who is the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, had emerged candidate of the PDP in the May 25 primary election for the selection of its governorship flag bearer.

However, Olorogun David Edevbie, a former Commissioner of Finance under former Governor James Ibori, who came second in the primary, had contended Oborevwori’s participation in the primary on the grounds of alleged discrepancies in his academic qualifications as well as his age.

He specifically urged the court to bar PDP from submitting Oborevwori’s name as the flagbearer of the party.