Delta Re-run: Uduanghan, Ogboru, Others Make INEC List

All is now set for the January 6, 2011 Delta State governorship re-run, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC).

The commission has released names of 14 candidates who will be participating in the re-run election.

Among them are the ousted governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) Chief Great Ogboru of Democratic People’s Party, (DPP), and Chief Ovie Omo-Agege, who will be flying the flag of Republican Party of Nigeria.

Others are Veronica Musu of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief Ngozi Agbogbo, of the African Democratic Congress and Peter Oghenevwogaga, Accord Party.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin had last month sacked the Governor of the oil rich Delta state, Emmanuel Uduaghan as it ruled that his election was fraudulent, null and void.

In a unanimous judgment read by Justice Monica Murktar, the court ordered a by-election within 90 days of the ruling.

The court further directed the Speaker of the Souse of assembly, Sam Obi to become the Acting Governor pending the conduct of the re-run election. He has since been sworn in.

Chief Great Ogboru of the Democratic People’s Party had gone to the election tribunal to challenge Uduaghan’s election which he lost but proceeded to the appellate court to appeal the tribunal’s judgment and was victorious.