A Supreme Court judgement has upheld the the ruling of  the Edo State Election Petition Tribunal,  striking out the issue of the educational qualification of Governor Adams Oshiomhole as a pre-election matter, thus making the matter technically dead. Vanguard newspaper reports that the announcement was met with wild jubilation in Edo state as youths, market women and Okada riders throng the streets of Benin City and Auchi chanting in celebration and urging Oshiomole to run for Presidency after his tenure is completed. The gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), General Charles Airhiavbere(rtd) in the July 14, 2012 governorship election in Edo State, had said that Oshiomhole was not qualified ab-initio to contest both the 2007 and 2012 elections on grounds of his academic qualification as provided for in the Electoral Act and the 1999 Constitution. He had told the court that the modern school certificate the Edo state Governor presented on oath to INEC was discovered to be fake. The courts however dismissed the claims. Meanwhile eminent citizens of Edo state have expressed delight over the Supreme Court ruling even as PDP Stakeholders in the state in a statement signed by Chief Aisulimhen Ighodaro, called for the expulsion of Airhiavbere for “disobeying the decision of the party not to contest the result of the election in the court”