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Social Democratic Party candidate in the Delta State governorship election on March 18, Kenneth Gbagi, has urged the Governorship Election Tribunal, sitting at Asaba, to declare him as the winner.
He claimed in the petition, in a Certified True Copy of his petition with No. EPT/DL/Gov/2/2023 to the tribunal, that Oborevwori falsified Declaration of Age/Affidavit in support of personal particulars in Form C.F. 001 (Affidavit in Support of Personal Particulars of Persons Seeking Election to the Office/Membership of State House of Assembly) dated October 24, 2018, and Form EC9 (Affidavit in Support of Personal Particulars) of June 30, 2022 to INEC and added that the candidates of the PDP, APC, LP and APGA were not qualified to have contested the election in the first instance.
Gbagi told newsmen in Abuja, yesterday, that the four candidates perjured themselves and outrightly lied about their qualifications for the March 18, 2023 governorship poll.
He further urged the tribunal to withdraw the certificate of return and issue a fresh certificate to him as duly qualified and elected governor.
“For those of us, who contested, and participated, I am the only one on the list is that is qualified.
“The election has been held, marks were allocated to us. My prayer is that they were not qualified, and I should be declared as the winner of the election because I am the only qualified candidate in the first instance,” Gbagi said.
He added that the governor-elect’s Statutory Declaration of Age/Affidavit deposed to in 2022 contains a different age contrary to what was contained in his West African Senior School Certificate (WASSC) dated June 1999 with Certificate Number 384793.
He also insisted Oborevwori lied under oath that he does not have Primary School Certificate, Secondary School Certificate, and university degree, whereas, in 2018, he exhibited same with his Form C. F. 001.
He added that the suit challenging Oborevwori’s qualification to contest the election was filed and decided at the Federal High Court, Asaba based on forged credentials.
Gbagi also claimed that the Deputy Governor-elect, Monday Onyeme, was dismissed from the employment of National Open University of Nigeria but failed to disclose the fact of his dismissal in his affidavit Form EC9 deposed to on June 29, 2022.
Gbagi, in the petition, also sought the disqualification of the candidates of the APC, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Labour Party, Ken Pela and APGA, Great Ovedje Ogboru over non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022.
He told the tribunal that the Supreme Court of the State of California in the United States of America, found Omo-Agege guilty and convicted of the offences of perjury and impersonation wherein, in a bid to secure a Driver’s License sometime in 1993.
The former minister disclosed that the Deputy Senate President at the time, listed his date of birth as May 10, 1965, and his name as Reginald Clark Bedney on the application and was issued with a Driver’s License, with number C9768216355315621 in the State of New York on the basis of the fake presentation made.
He further claimed that Omo-Agege was convicted in the United States of America for the offences of forgery, dishonesty, and multiple/pattern of misconduct, a fact which he failed to disclose in his Form EC9 despite the express demand for him to do so.
Gbagi averred in the petition that on various occasions, while in the US, Omo-Agege gave inconsistent dates of birth such as August 3rd, 1963, January 20th, 1964, and December 16th, 1965, as well as inconsistent names such as, Augustine Omoagege, Agege Augustine, Omo-Agege Ovie Augustine, Reginal Clark Bedney, Christopher Agege, Ronald Shawn Byrd, and Kirk Darwin Johnson, for which he was found guilty of and convicted, as contained in the judgement of the Supreme Court of California, but failed to disclose all these in his Form EC9 filled and submitted to the first respondent.
