Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (Delta Central)
decamps from LP to APC
The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Edo State, has struck out
appeals by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and Rev. Francis Waive, seeking
the leave of court to challenge the judgement of the Federal High
Court, Asaba, which nullified their elections.
The court, in its ruling on Friday, dismissed the two
applications for lacking merit.
Senator Omo-Agege and Rev. Waive emerged as the candidates of
the APC in the 2019 general elections from the Prophet Jones
Erue-led faction of the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives
Congress, which the Asaba Federal High Court had sacked as
chairman.
Justice Toyin Adegoke had, in the ruling in the case filed by
the factional chairman of APC in Delta, Cyril Ogodo, in suit number
FA/ASA/CS/76/2018 declared as null, void and of no effect any and
every action purportedly taken, initiated or carried out by the
fourth defendant, Jones Erue, as chairman of APC (first
defendant).
The court declared the plaintiff, Ogodo, as the authentic
chairman of the main opposition party in the state.
However, in the Friday ruling, the Appeal Court dismissed their
applications for lack of merit and awarded a fine N300,000 each
against the applicants.