Omo-Agege in self –denial over annulment of his candidacy -Emerhor
Nosa Akenzua, Asaba
Olorogun O’tega Emerhor has affirmed that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege is in self-denial over the annulment of his candidacy in the general elections, declaring that the certificate of return erroneously issued to him by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will soon be retrieved and re-issued to him.
In a press release by his media and social communications aide, Mr. Aghogho Orotomah, Emerhor said that the Federal High Court, Asaba made a specific order, nullifying the list of APC governorship, National Assembly and House of Assembly candidates submitted to INEC by the Prophet Jones Erue state executive committee of the party.
The order, Emerhor said affected the APC senatorial candidates for Delta South, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan; Delta Central, Sen. Omo-Agege and Delta North, Doris Uboh.
Furthermore, he added that the court made another order identifying the authentic and valid APC candidates that should have contested the last polls, naming them as
Chief Micheal Johnny for Delta South, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor for Delta Central and Mrs. Marian Ali for Delta North.
“These enrolled orders have been served by the court bailiff on INEC and INEC has begun the process of obedience to the order by refusing to give out the certificate of return to the three affected candidates of the Prophet Jones Erue annulled list in Asaba on March 27.
“It is therefore, obvious that the certificate of return already issued to Sen. Omo-Agege is in error and it is only a matter of time for it to be withdrawn by INEC and together with those INEC already withheld, re-issue same to Olorogun Emerhor and others.
“Senator Omo-Agege has to be in self- denial to continue to grandstand that the Asaba Federal High Court judgement does not affect his candidacy.
“He did the right thing by attempting to seek leave of court to appeal the judgment as an impacted person, but unfortunately, the Court of Appeal, Benin shut the door on him for sleeping on his right for the last six months and awarded cost against him.
“Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, the valid candidate and senator-elect for Delta Central awaits calmly his certificate of return from INEC,” the statement, concluded.
