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The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal brought before it by the Delta State governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Kenneth Gbagi challenging the election of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori.

The apex court described the appeal as “a waste of time, mere academic exercise, and lacking any utilitarian value”.

Gbagi had filed an appeal against the decision of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal and Court of Appeal to refuse to admit fresh evidence not pleaded during trial.

He had claimed to have discovered new evidence to prove his petition, even after making an application for the reopening of his case on the date fixed for adoption of final written addresses by the Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Asaba, the state capital.

The tribunal had dismissed the aforesaid application for being incompetent, belated and strange as the document he was trying to introduce was not pleaded in his petition.

The tribunal proceeded to conclude the hearing of the petition and found that Gbagi’s claim that he won the election was totally unfounded. The tribunal also dismissed Gbagi’s claim that Governor Oborevwori, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the March 18, 2023 governorship election was not qualified to contest the election.

Not satisfied with the tribunal’s ruling, Gbagi filed an appeal at the Appeal Court against the tribunal’s refusal to accept his belated application to reopen his case.

The Court of Appeal, however, dismissed his appeal and held that the tribunal was right to have refused to reopen his case.

Still not satisfied, Gbagi proceeded to the Supreme Court to appeal the judgement of the lower court.

PDP’s counsel, Ekeme Ohwovoriole, SAN, and Ayo Asala, SAN for Governor Oborevwori had argued that the appeal lacked merit because the tribunal had been dissolved.

In a unanimous judgment of the apex court on Thursday, delivered by Justice John Inyang Okoro, the apex court held that the appeal was a complete waste of time, had become spent, academic and lacking usefulness.

The apex court held that the 180 days allowed for hearing the petition had expired and that there was no tribunal to even hear the appeal since the tribunal had since been dissolved.

 

Men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, Amotekun Corps, have busted alleged robbers’ hideout and retrieved stolen properties.

 

Five suspects including husband and wife were arrested and taken to the Amotekun office for further investigations. 

 

The officers traced the suspects to their hideout a few minutes past noon on Friday, October 13, 2023, at their residence in Canaan Land Street, Ijoka, Akure.

 

The alleged robbers were said to have come with a vehicle to move the stolen items away to a place known to them before they were caught.

 

Residents of the community complained about their properties earlier being carted away without knowing that the robbers were hiding in the same street

 

It was gathered that members of the community trooped out to attest to their stolen properties in the custody of the suspects.

 

Gideon Okeke is speaking out again months after crying out that he can’t have unrestricted access to his sons until they are 18. 

In a new Instagram post, the actor said there are three phases in a father’s relationship with his son.  He added that this relationship is “contingent on the mother” and the sons can be “weaponised against their father”. 
 

He then called on sons to try to humanise their fathers. He also called on “Pharaoh” to let his people go. 

 

This is not the first time Gideon is making a post like this. 

In Jan 2023, Gideon Okeke cried out after the court granted his ex-wife custody of their children and ruled that the actor is only allowed to see his kids at the place where they reside and can’t take them out. 

 

Gideon wrote at the time: “When I think of my 18year jail sentence I remember even people on death row get 3 visitations as part of the last living rights and the choice of a planned meal before their execution. people serving life, get visitation even leading up to a conjugal. These are rights laid out for the ones who have wronged society. Whose rightful place is in the gallows. 

“But parental alienation and depravation is an ill punishments upon a father who wants to be there for his sons. But by the Federal Government of my kids affairs… I don’t get custody and yet my visitation rights are restricted, ONLY with the 4 corners of their compound. As in I cant even take them for ICE CREAM. 

“A marriage went south. this is MY L in Lesson.” 

 

Then, in April 2023, he called out single mothers who prevent their kids from seeing their fathers. 

He wrote: “Dear single Mother, 

“You didn’t pluck those kids from the trees. 

“You didn’t buy them off the shelves at 

Shoprite. It took 2 of you, in love, to have the privilege of the legacy of Kids, in your life. 

“People go a whole lifetime without this blessings you have on your laps. They are a gift from God. Being an ONLY child myself… 

“I can tell U what women go through to find this gift… for free…by God’s grace. 

“Why you con Dey use this same gift take Dey punish another Man. Or so you thought you were punishing Him. But no! It’s the KIDS 

“Get out of the Way. You’re in the way of Your kids emotional balance. You’re in the way!” 

 

At the time, his ex-wife Chidera Uduezue  responded, “If I start to talk! Hmmmmm.. 

“There will be no holding back. 

“Because the millipede that was stomped on did not scream, but the foot that stomped on it keeps screaming ‘my foot, my foot'(it’s sweeter in Igbo sha, but, you get the gist lol). 

“But my people say that, ‘Adiro ibuo ayi ala’, so I’ll be the bigger person, as ALWAYS and keep living life.” 

 

Gideon and Chidera had their traditional wedding in December 2018 and their church wedding in April 21, 2019. The union produced two sons and they announced their separation in 2022, after 3 years of marriage.