The Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate for governor in Delta, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, has requested that Sheriff Oborevwori be disqualified due to suspected forgery by the electoral petition tribunal in Asaba.

In addition, he requested that the candidates for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr. Great Ogboru, the Labour Party's Ken Pela, and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ovie Omo-Agege, be disqualified for violating the 2022 Electoral Act.

In an interview with newsmen in Abuja, Gbagi, a former minister of education, made the recommendation.

The SDP candidate in the March 18 governorship election filed a 79-page petition asking for the dismissal of the governor-elect and the other front-runners.

Gbagi claimed that the candidates submitted fake documents on the INEC forms in an effort to meet the constitutional standards for eligibility for the 2023 governorship election in a certified true copy petition with the tribunal's petition number WPT/DL/GOV/2023.

Inconsistencies in the names of some of the candidates, repeated sworn statutory declarations of age and affidavits, and perjurious swearing of affidavits were among the fabricated documents, according to him.

Among the alleged irregularities he cited were vote buying and excessive voting.

According to him, there have been instances where the total number of votes cast and counted has exceeded the number of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) that voters have gathered, which has exceeded the number of registered voters in the polling unit.

Other alleged violations, in his opinion, were over- and under-voting, mutilation of form EC8As, polling units without corresponding voting point result sheets, and manipulation of some results sheets that did not reflect on the duplicate copies sent to party agents.

He further urged the tribunal to withdraw the Certificate of Return and issue a fresh certificate to him as duly qualified and elected governor.

“For those of us, who contested and particapated, I am the only one on the list that is qualified.

“The election has been held, marks were allocated to us, my prayer is that they were not qualified, and I should be declared as the winner of the election because I am the only qualified candidate in the first instance,”he said.

He said it was the right time to bring up the matter as records and experience showed that pre election cases most times do not go far.

“Go back to the Electoral Act, I could not have raised an objection on issue of a candidate of a party that I am not a member.

”Every one who went to pre-election matter, none of them went any where, this is the appropriate time, to raise this issue.” he said