{"id":2171,"date":"2023-09-18T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:51:12","slug":"breaking-election-tribunal-upholds-dauda-lawals-victory-as-zamfara-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/09\/18\/breaking-election-tribunal-upholds-dauda-lawals-victory-as-zamfara-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Election Tribunal Upholds Dauda Lawal&#8217;s Victory as Zamfara Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Petition Tribunal validated Dauda Lawal&#8217;s win as the legitimately elected Governor of Zamfara State in a landmark ruling on Monday. Following a protracted legal battle, this decision cements Lawal&#8217;s status as the legitimate leader of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal&#8217;s decision, which came after a thorough analysis of the facts and legal arguments submitted by all parties concerned, indisputably certified Lawal&#8217;s victory in the state&#8217;s governor election. This result is the consequence of the tribunal&#8217;s dedication to respecting democratic and legal norms.<\/p>\n<p>Lawal, who ran under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag, defeated All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate and incumbent governor Bello Matawalle in the 2023 elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Details later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Petition Tribunal validated Dauda Lawal&#8217;s win as the legitimately elected Governor of Zamfara State in a landmark ruling on Monday. Following a protracted legal battle, this decision cements Lawal&#8217;s status as the legitimate leader of the state. The tribunal&#8217;s decision, which came after a thorough analysis of the facts and legal arguments submitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-2171","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\/2171","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=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}