Barely days before the Court of Appeal delivers judgement in the long-awaited Delta State gubernatorial Tribunal appeal, the court has been moved from its primary place of sitting, Benin to Abuja.
Report available to Elombah.com shows that judgment will be delivered on Thursday, December 24, 2015.
There is heightened tension that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress [APC] plots to remove the governor, Ifeanyi Okowa from there.
So far, no official pronouncement has been made for the reasons behind the change of venue.
The Delta State Tribunal holding in Asaba, the state capital, had on Monday, 26 October upheld the governorship election of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Legal fireworks had been ongoing between Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] and his All progressives Congress [APC] counterpart, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor.
“This is a travesty of justice, a miscarriage of the peoples wish who voted for me,” Emerhor had described the Tribunal judgement.
In a swift reaction, the state chairman of APC, Prophet Jones Ode Erue had declared: “We have heard the judgment, and we must confess that we are disappointed, but we will appeal.”
Elombah.com will publish the details as they unfold…
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