{"id":12559,"date":"2023-12-21T12:11:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=12559"},"modified":"2023-12-21T12:11:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:11:32","slug":"breaking-supreme-court-reserves-verdict-as-kano-governorship-election-appeal-unfolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/21\/breaking-supreme-court-reserves-verdict-as-kano-governorship-election-appeal-unfolds\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Supreme Court Reserves Verdict as Kano Governorship Election Appeal Unfolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has decided to withhold judgment in the appeal concerning the Kano State governorship election. Presided over by Justice Inyang Okoro, a five-member panel of justices made this decision on Thursday after hearing arguments from the involved lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State and the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP) jointly filed the appeal, challenging the November 17 ruling of the Court of Appeal that nullified their triumph in the March 19 governorship election. Notably, the party has brought to the attention of the apex court the alleged inconsistencies within the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the judgment that upheld the governor&#8217;s election, a verdict accompanied by a N1 million damages award.<\/p>\n<p>Adding complexity to the situation, a three-member panel of justices, led by Justice Moore A. Adumein, sided with the appeal lodged by Nasir Yusuf Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has decided to withhold judgment in the appeal concerning the Kano State governorship election. Presided over by Justice Inyang Okoro, a five-member panel of justices made this decision on Thursday after hearing arguments from the involved lawyers. Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State and the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP) jointly filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-12559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12560,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions\/12560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}