While other political party candidates are going to Electoral Tribunal to nullify the conduct and results of the just concluded 2023 general election, Chief Great Ogboru, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), in Delta State, has put on his reasons why he will not challenge the victory of Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, the governor-elect, and candidate of the People’s Democratic Party.
Chief Ogboru who once congratulated the governor-elect said he was convinced that the PDP candidate won the March 18 Governorship Election properly.
He said this while interacting with journalists in Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state on Monday.
The politician who turns 60 years old on Monday, April 10th, 2023, clarifies the aspersion that he was bought over by the PDP, as false, restating that he was one of the few people that could not be persuaded with money in any condition.
According to Ogboru “If anybody was making that insinuation, they are wrong; when we went to the elections, the PDP approached us and as a matter of facts, they came and approached us that we should step down and I said no, it should be the reverse, your candidate should step down and endorse me.
“After a few weeks, we met with the state governor, and in that meeting, we agreed that one of us should win that election and that if Sheriff won, Great Ogboru that win and if Great Ogboru won, it is Sheriff that won.
“So to that extent, l have to congratulate him and be part of the celebration, but in any case, it was not pre-planned because it was not to be so, and without any apology, we have to congratulate him because we did not win that election.
“The issues of apathy, violence, voters inducement, and intimidation are not issues to be adjudicated upon in the court, these are realities, and if you are not able to change it because the law did not permit you to do so, you must accept the outcome.
“There are no contradictions to the facts that the elections were marred with shortcomings, but it did not take the fact that somebody won the election as it were. We accept that report and we are standing by it.
have no words for other constants, they have their party and l have my party, the decision we took was not a decision l took by myself but it was after due consultation with members of our caucus, very senior members of our party and it was not a personal decision.
“They would have to conclude themselves and by the time they realized as l have realized that it is not going to be easy, it is going to be impossible for that matter to prove some of the allegations levied against the election.
“They would come to the inevitable conclusion that they will not question the outcome. In any case, it is a process, let them go to court, they have their grievances, let them go to court and do what they think is the best.
“We stand by our judgment confirmation that Sheriff Oborevwori won the election properly.”
