Uduaghan, Ogboru disagree over inspection of electoral materials

Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and the governorship candidate of the Democratic People’s Party, Mr. Great Ogboru, on Monday traded words over an order of the election petition tribunal to inspect materials used in the April governorship election.


While Ogboru’s DPP accused the Peoples Democratic Party and the Independent National Electoral Commission of deliberately frustrating Justice Ayo Abisoye’s order that the election materials should be jointly inspected, the PDP described the allegation as “false, reckless and unguarded.”

Ogboru had accused the PDP of sabotaging the process by its continued refusal to be present during the joint inspection exercise as ordered by the tribunal.

Ogboru had while making the allegation said, “Governor Uduaghan and PDP who are the 1st and 2nd respondents in the petition are holding us to ransom in collaboration with INEC.

“INEC has refused to give us the materials to inspect because PDP are in contempt of court and have refused to come for the joint inspection .INEC has no right to refuse us the materials because the exercise is time-bound and we are very displeased.”

But Uduaghan, who spoke through the Coordinator of the Delta State PDP Campaign council, Chief Paulinus Akpeki, debunked insinuations that the PDP connived with INEC to frustrate the order of the tribunal sitting in Asaba, the state capital.

Akpeki said the PDP had, consequent upon the court order, displayed “great enthusiasm” by collaborating with all the stakeholders in the electoral process with a view to complying with the order.

He accused the DPP of resorting to “premature gimmicks of blackmail” when the opposition party had not shown seriousness in complying with the tribunal order.

He said, “It is the collective moral duty and responsibility of both parties and stakeholders involved and/or affected by judicial investigation, pursuant to the already concluded governorship election exercise to wait patiently for the conclusion of the judicial exercise rather than make inflammatory utterances that cannot be substantiated by verifiable facts.

“The PDP as a responsible party has never and will not in any way interfere with or connive with anybody or group to prevent the course of justice and the sanctity of the judiciary, either surreptitiously or otherwise.”

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