{"id":16544,"date":"2024-01-25T12:07:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T12:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=16544"},"modified":"2024-01-25T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T12:07:29","slug":"apcs-patrick-tonye-cole-responds-to-supreme-court-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/25\/apcs-patrick-tonye-cole-responds-to-supreme-court-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"APC&#8217;s Patrick Tonye-Cole Responds to Supreme Court Dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Patrick Tonye-Cole, has reacted to the Supreme Court&#8217;s dismissal of his appeal against the election of Governor Sim Fubara from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Tonye-Cole expressed gratitude fo the support during the legal process and acknowledged the temporary disappointment, emphasizing that it&#8217;s only a setback. He said, &#8220;The result today may be disappointing, but it is only temporary. We have so much to gain moving forward so weep for today only; tomorrow we stand again, hold up our heads, and forge on. Aluta continua.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The APC governorship candidate had contested the election outcome, alleging Fubara&#8217;s failure to resign as the state&#8217;s Accountant General within the specified time frame. The Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling upheld Governor Fubara&#8217;s victory, deeming Tonye-Cole&#8217;s appeal without merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Patrick Tonye-Cole, has reacted to the Supreme Court&#8217;s dismissal of his appeal against the election of Governor Sim Fubara from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In a statement, Tonye-Cole expressed gratitude fo the support during the legal process and acknowledged the temporary disappointment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":16564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16544","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\/16544","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16573,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16544\/revisions\/16573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}