{"id":32512,"date":"2024-05-24T16:40:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=32512"},"modified":"2024-05-24T16:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T16:40:55","slug":"breaking-tribunal-upholds-uzodinmas-election-as-imo-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/24\/breaking-tribunal-upholds-uzodinmas-election-as-imo-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Tribunal Upholds Uzodinma\u2019s Election as Imo Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Imo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has upheld the election of Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of Imo State. The ruling was delivered on Friday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal dismissed the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its governorship candidate, Athan Achonu. In a unanimous decision delivered by Justice Oluyemi Akintan-Osadebay, the three-man panel ruled that Uzodimma\u2019s election complied substantially with the provisions of the Electoral Act.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal also concluded that the Labour Party failed to prove allegations of over-voting and non-compliance with the Electoral Act.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further details on the ruling will be provided later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Imo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has upheld the election of Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of Imo State. The ruling was delivered on Friday in Abuja. &nbsp; The tribunal dismissed the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its governorship candidate, Athan Achonu. In a unanimous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":32516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32512","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\/32512","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32517,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32512\/revisions\/32517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}