APC/LP Merger: Ogboru supporters in Labour Party pass vote of no confidence in State Chairman

Delta State Labour party has passed a vote of no confidence on its Chairman, Mr. Tony Ezeagwu just as he was accused of developing “a sudden mental Amnesia” and “no longer be trusted to lead the merger talks” after setting up a 9-man committee to negotiate with the APC to fuse as one party in […]

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Urhobo Politicians and Burden of Mediocre Advisers By Goodluck Edafe

SHORTLY after the March 28, 2015 Senatorial election, I wrote the title, “Omo-Agege: A taste of defeat”. In that particular outing, I pointed to Omo-Agege of the need to experience the pain – emotional trauma that injustice and election rigging could bring to the oppressed. I held in that piece that what happened to Omo-Agege […]

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2019 Guber battle begins as Ogboru, Omo-Agege, Ochei join Emerhor in APC to mobilise forces against Okowa

Delta APC have ratified, voted overwhimingly to support of Chief Great Ogboru, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and Hon Victor Ochei joining APC, according to the party’s spokesman, Dr. Latimore Fred Oghenesivbe It was hilarious, superlative and heart warming as the extended State Executive Council (SEC) members of the All progressives Congress (APC) deliberated and in onism […]

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Ogboru slams Okowa over provocative comment says “he is a usurper of the ‘senseless rigging’ specie.”

GOVERNORSHIP candidates of Labour Party, LP  in last year’s governorship election in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru has tongue-lashed the state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, for saying that they did not campaign for the election.   Okowa had at an interactive session with journalists in Asaba, last week, said that Ogboru and Emerhor did not […]

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Delta Guber: Why Okowa won at the Appeal Court

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Thursday dismissed the appeal filed by Chief Great Ogboru of the Labour Party and Olorogun O’tega Emerhor against Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa in the Delta state governorship election which held in April, 2015. In his ruling on Thursday, Justice Uwani Abba-Aji who led other five-man bench said that […]

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Four key INEC documents that may remove Delta Gov. Okowa

The Delta State governorship election petition tribunal, sitting in Asaba, has admitted four key documents, including card readers’ accreditation report, tendered by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The accreditation report submitted by INEC showed that the number of accredited voters for the April 11 governorship election in Delta state was lower than the […]

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Emerhor’s INEC witness may remove Gov. Okowa

The Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed applications filed by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), aimed at stopping the All Progressive Congress (APC) and its gubernatorial candidate, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor to bring key witnesses from INEC to tender relevant documents relating to the results of the April […]

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