{"id":2986,"date":"2023-09-06T16:02:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:02:55","slug":"tribunal-declares-natasha-winner-kogi-central-senatorial-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/tribunal-declares-natasha-winner-kogi-central-senatorial-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal Declares Natasha Winner Kogi Central Senatorial Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Kogi State Election Petitions Tribunal has declared Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan of the Peoples Democratic Party as the winner of the Kogi Central Senatorial election held in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It also invalidated the victory of Senator Abubakar Ohere of the All Progressives Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Tribunal Chairman, Justice K. A. Orjiako, delivered the unanimous judgment of the three-man panel, revealing that Sen. Ohere\u2019s results were inflated in nine polling units in the Ajaokuta Local Government Area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He added that the Independent National Electoral Commission reduced Natasha\u2019s results in those areas and omitted the results of three other polling units meant for Natasha in the same LGA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following the necessary corrections, the court declared Natasha as the winner of the election with 54,074 votes, surpassing Ohere, who garnered\u00a051,291\u00a0votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kogi State Election Petitions Tribunal has declared Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan of the Peoples Democratic Party as the winner of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}