Politics
Move To Disqualify Omo-Agege From Delta Election Gathers Steam In Court
By GWG Political Editor
Optimism by supporters of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege to cash in on the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Delta State for an easy ride to the governorship are being clouded by a court case to disqualify Hon Friday Ossai Osanebi as his running mate on the All Progressives Congress, APC ticket.
GWG reports that the suit to disqualify the All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate through the court was brought by Eze Henry Ekene, the governorship candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement, APM and his party on the claim that Osanebi was a member of the PDP at the time he was nominated as the running mate to Omo-Agege.
Osanebi, a popular political force in the Ndokwa nation, it would be recalled faced many trials in the present dispensation in the PDP and became an easy choice as a running mate to Omo-Agege, himself also a former political force in the PDP.
Joined in the suit as defendants in the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Warri are Senator Omo-Agege, whom the court action seeks to disqualify, Osanebi, APC, PDP, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and the Delta State House of Assembly.
In the affidavit to support his case he claimed that Osanebi only resigned from the PDP five days after his name was forwarded as the deputy-governorship candidate of the APC.
In his originating summons, seeking among others go disqualify Omo-Agege as the APC candidate he is asking the court to among others:
A DECLARATION that the 2nd Defendant who purportedly resigned his membership of the 4th Defendant on 6th July, 2022 and whose name is not in the Register of Members of the 3rd Defendant maintained and submitted to the 5th Defendant by the 3rd Defendant earlier before its Governorship congress held on the 26th of May, 2022 CANNOT be sponsored as the Deputy-Governorship candidate of the 3rd Defendant in the 2023 Governorship election in Delta State.
He is also seeking a DECLARATION that the 3rd Defendant (APC) did not comply with the provisions of Section 177 (c) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) by sponsoring a member of another political party as its (3rd Defendant) Deputy-Governorship candidate for the Governorship election scheduled to be conducted by the 5th Defendant on 11th March, 2023.
Besides, he is also seeking a DECLARATION that a member of a different political party cannot be the sponsored candidate of the 3rd Defendant (APC) for the 2023 Governorship election in Delta State.
The move by the APM candidate to disqualify Omo-Agege through the courts could throw the Delta State governorship election into a tailspin given the persisting problems in the PDP which presently does not have a candidate as recognised by INEC.
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