{"id":15507,"date":"2024-01-19T10:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=15507"},"modified":"2024-01-19T10:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:02:16","slug":"supreme-court-dismisses-lps-appeal-in-delta-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/19\/supreme-court-dismisses-lps-appeal-in-delta-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Dismisses LP&#8217;s Appeal in Delta Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Labour Party and its candidate, Kennedy Pela, in the last governorship election in Delta State. They sought the cancellation of the election of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent judgment, a five-member panel of the court unanimously resolved all six identified issues against the appellants.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, in the lead judgment, held that the appellants failed to prove their case as required. Justice Abba dismissed the appeal for lacking in merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Labour Party and its candidate, Kennedy Pela, in the last governorship election in Delta State. They sought the cancellation of the election of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of the PDP. In a recent judgment, a five-member panel of the court unanimously resolved all six identified issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,186],"tags":[237,148],"class_list":["post-15507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-politics","tag-lp","tag-supreme-court"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15518,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions\/15518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}