{"id":3450,"date":"2023-10-02T15:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T15:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2023-10-02T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T15:23:19","slug":"tribunal-sacks-governor-sule-of-nasarawa-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/tribunal-sacks-governor-sule-of-nasarawa-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal Sacks Governor Sule Of Nasarawa State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Nasarawa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, has nullified the victory of Governor Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as Governor of Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gatekeepersnews.com\/\">Gatekeepers News<\/a> reports that the three-man panel led by Justice Ezekiel Ajayi, while delivering the judgment via zoom, declared Emmanuel Ombudagu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is the winner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Justice Ezekiel maintained that the petitioner was able to prove his case beyond reasonable doubt for alleged over voting, disruption of votes, among other irregularities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lafia, declared Abdullahi Sule the winner of the governorship election in Nasarawa State in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prof Ishaya Tanko, the INEC returning officer said that the APC candidate polled a total of 347,209 votes to defeat his closest opponent, David Ombugadu, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 283, 016 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasarawa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, has nullified the victory of Governor Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressive Congress (APC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","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\/3450","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=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}