{"id":1994,"date":"2023-09-14T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2023-09-14T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:04:46","slug":"breaking-appeal-court-reverses-election-tribunals-verdict-declares-labour-party-candidate-winner-in-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/09\/14\/breaking-appeal-court-reverses-election-tribunals-verdict-declares-labour-party-candidate-winner-in-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Appeal Court Reverses Election Tribunal&#8217;s Verdict, Declares Labour Party Candidate Winner in Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Idowu Patrick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja has overruled the ruling previously delivered by the National and State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal in Asaba, in a significant legal step. The tribunal&#8217;s first judgment had proclaimed Ndudi Elumelu, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, as the victor of the 2023 election for the Aniocha\/Oshimili federal constituency in Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal reversed the tribunal&#8217;s decision in a ruling published on a Thursday, confirming Ngozi Okolie, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), as the rightful and duly elected legislator for the federal seat.<\/p>\n<p>This legal strategy has sent shockwaves through Delta State&#8217;s political environment. The Court of Appeal&#8217;s ruling not only overturns the result of a highly watched election, but it also reshapes the political dynamics in the Aniocha\/Oshimili federal seat.<\/p>\n<p>As word of the Court of Appeal&#8217;s ruling spreads, political stakeholders, party supporters, and civilians alike are waiting to see what happens next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idowu Patrick The Court of Appeal in Abuja has overruled the ruling previously delivered by the National and State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal in Asaba, in a significant legal step. The tribunal&#8217;s first judgment had proclaimed Ndudi Elumelu, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, as the victor of the 2023 election for the Aniocha\/Oshimili [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}