The Orogun-born politician had left the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) for the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to actualise his aspiration to govern Delta State in 2011. But the Appeal Court’s verdict has put this on hold, at least, for now.
He must wait for the outcome of the fresh election next February, unless ACN can make a case that its candidate in the April 2007 poll, Mr. Peter Okocha, was wrongfully excluded from the race and that it went to court to challenge his exclusion from the election.
After some twists and turns, his suit was dismissed and he did not appeal the judgment since he had set his eyes on returning to PDP. Some observers argued that it is difficult to see how ACN can fight to field a candidate on the basis of the April 2007 contest.
The second dilemma facing Omo-Agege is Chief Great Ogboru whose Democratic Peoples’ Party, DPP, merged with ACN at the national level. Some members of DPP moved to fuse with ACN in Delta State.
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