I had 19 election cases against me in seven years – Uduaghan Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has disclosed that a total of 19 cases presided over by 77 judges/justices were instituted against him by his political opponents since May 29, 2007 when he assumed office. Uduaghan made the disclosure at a special thanksgiving service to celebrate his recent victory at the Supreme Court in the suit instituted against him by the gubernatorial candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) in the 2011 governorship polls, Great Ogboru. The governor promised, at the thanksgiving service, which held at the First Baptist Church, Warri to donate to the church N2 million costs awarded in his favour against counsel to Ogboru by the Supreme Court. According to him, the thanksgiving service was held to appreciate God who had given him victories in the several cases that were instituted against him by his political opponents since his emergence as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the 2007 governorship polls. “For us, this thanksgiving is very important and critical. If you know our political history, since 2007 it has been a long struggle,” the governor said, adding, “we had 19 cases within the last seven years and a total of 77 judges were involved and I hear that is the highest recorded number of cases in Nigeria today against any politician.” He noted: “In all of these, it is not by the power of our lawyers or the knowledge of anyone but by the grace of God,” observing, “in this last case, the Supreme Court imposed a fine and warned the lawyer never to bring the case to the court again. “The case wasn’t my case, it was God’s case and I have told my lawyers to bring the two million naira fine in favour of me to this church because I dedicated the flag given to me as the PDP candidate for the election in this church.” He noted that the next one-year would be very critical “but, God has been faithful, God is our King, our Lord and whenever you believe in God, you will have the type of results that I got.”
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 01:45:20 +0000
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