{"id":3741,"date":"2023-10-19T19:14:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2023-10-19T19:14:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:14:56","slug":"supreme-court-to-hear-atikus-appeal-against-tinubu-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/supreme-court-to-hear-atikus-appeal-against-tinubu-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to hear Atiku\u2019s appeal against Tinubu Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Supreme Court will commence hearings on the appeal by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, October 23, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Atiku, who came second in the election, had approached the presidential election tribunal to nullify the February 25 election, in which the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Bola Tinubu the winner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tribunal, however, dismissed the petition for lack of merit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dissatisfied with the lower court\u2019s verdict, Atiku filed an appeal before the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Supreme Court Registrar, Zainab Garba, in a notice on Thursday, announced that Atiku\u2019s appeal had been listed for hearing on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It read, \u201dTake notice that the above appeal\/motion will be listed for hearing before the Supreme Court of Nigeria sitting at Abuja on Monday, October 23, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAnd further take notice that in accordance with Order 2 Rule 1(2) of the Supreme Court Rules 1985, as amended, this NOTICE is deemed sufficiently served on you if it is left at your address of service or sent by registered post and since the date of service by post is material, Section 26 of the Interpretation Act, 1964 shall ap\u03c1ly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court will commence hearings on the appeal by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","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=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3742,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions\/3742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}