Supreme Court has affirmed the Delta State Speaker, Oborevwori Sheriff, as the right candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.
Justice Tijani Abubakar, who delivered the judgment also dismissed the appeal of David Edevbie for lacking in merit.
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The Supreme Court judgment has upheld the judgement of the Court of Appeal delivered on August 29, this year.
During the PDP primary in May, Oborevwori polled 590 votes to beat David Edevbie, the commissioner for finance during the James Ibori administration, who polled 113 votes.
Oborevwori, speaker of Delta state house of assembly, is the preferred candidate of Ifeanyi Okowa, the incumbent governor, while James Ibori, a former governor, is said to be backing Edevbie.
In August, the court of appeal overturned the judgement of an Abuja federal high court which directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise Edevbie as the duly elected candidate of the PDP for the governorship election.
Aggrieved by the outcome of the primary, Edevbie had filed a suit against Oborevwori and the party, citing discrepancies in Oborevwori’s certificates.
Taiwo Taiwo, judge of the federal high court, had disqualified Oborevwori for allegedly submitting false information to INEC to back his nomination as PDP’s candidate.
