{"id":14234,"date":"2024-01-12T13:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=14234"},"modified":"2024-01-12T13:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:24:47","slug":"just-in-apex-court-reverses-mutfwangs-sack-affirms-him-as-plateau-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/12\/just-in-apex-court-reverses-mutfwangs-sack-affirms-him-as-plateau-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Apex Court Reverses Mutfwang\u2019s Sack, Affirms Him as Plateau Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Caleb Mutfwang as Plateau state governor.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court led by Emmanuel Agim, held that \u201cthe whole case is a clear abuse of court process\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The court faulted the court of appeal for voiding Mutfwang\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>The court held that the tribunal and court of appeal cannot determine the issue of validity of a party\u2019s candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Agim held that matters of the national executive council, and administration of a political party, are internal affairs of the party and cannot be entertained by the tribunal or the court of appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe election and return of the appellant as governor of Plateau state is hereby restored,\u201d the court held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Caleb Mutfwang as Plateau state governor. The apex court led by Emmanuel Agim, held that \u201cthe whole case is a clear abuse of court process\u201d. The court faulted the court of appeal for voiding Mutfwang\u2019s election. The court held that the tribunal and court of appeal cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14237,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions\/14237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}