Afrigather The Supreme Court docket on Thursday dismissed an enchantment introduced earlier than it by Chief Kenneth Gbagi in opposition to Delta State Governor, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, for being a waste of time, mere educational train, and missing any utilitarian worth.
Within the enchantment, Gbagi, a governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Social gathering (SDP) filed the enchantment in opposition to the choices of the Election Petition Tribunal and Court docket of Attraction refusing to confess recent proof not pleaded or frontloaded throughout trial.
Gbagi who claimed to have found new proof to show his petition, had made an software for the reopening of his case on the date fastened for adoption of ultimate written addresses by the Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Asaba.
The Tribunal dismissed the aforesaid software for being incompetent, belated, and unusual because the doc he was making an attempt to introduce was not pleaded in his petition.
The Tribunal proceeded to conclude the listening to of the Petition and located that Gbagi’s declare of being the winner of the election was completely unfounded. The Tribunal additionally dismissed Gbagi’s declare that Governor Sheriff Oborevwori was not certified to contest the election.
Not glad with the Tribunal’s ruling, Gbagi filed an enchantment in opposition to the Tribunal’s refusal of his belated software to reopen his case.
The Court docket of Attraction, in dismissing the enchantment, held that the Tribunal rightly refused to reopen his case.
Nonetheless not glad, Gbagi proceeded to the Supreme Court docket in opposition to the judgment of the Court docket of Attraction on the difficulty of reopening his case.
PDP’s Counsel, Ekeme Ohwovoriole, SAN, and Ayo Asala, SAN for Governor Oborevwori, had argued that the Attraction lacked advantage as a result of the tribunal had been dissolved.
In a unanimous judgment of the apex court docket delivered by Justice John Inyang Okoro, the apex court docket held that the enchantment was a whole waste of time, had change into spent, educational and missing usefulness
