Appeal court upholds Governor Okowa’s election, dismisses APC, LP appeals

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the appeals filed by the All Progressives Congress’ governorship candidate, Olorogun O’ tega Emerhor, and his Labour Party counterpart,  Chief Great Ogboru, challenging the judgment of the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which affirmed Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s election as governor of Delta State..


In separate judgments by the five-man bench presided over by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji on Thursday, the appeal court held that the appeals lacked merit and that the tribunal was right to have dismissed the separate petitions filed by Emerhor and Ogboru.