{"id":4349,"date":"2023-11-06T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2023-11-06T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T11:00:08","slug":"appeal-court-reverses-election-result-reinstates-yusuf-datti-in-kura-madobi-garun-malam-federal-constituency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/06\/appeal-court-reverses-election-result-reinstates-yusuf-datti-in-kura-madobi-garun-malam-federal-constituency\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court Reverses Election Result, Reinstates Yusuf Datti in Kura\/Madobi\/Garun Malam Federal Constituency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja has overturned the election victory of Musa Ilyasu Kwankwaso from the All Progressives Congress and reinstated Yusuf Umar Datti, a candidate from the New Nigeria People&#8217;s Party, in the Kura\/Madobi\/Garun Malam Federal Constituency Election.<\/p>\n<p>The panel, presided over by Justice Tunde Oyebamiji Awotoye, upheld an Appeal filed by Yusuf Datti and ruled that the tribunal had erred in its decision to calculate the date of the candidate&#8217;s resignation based on the day of his party&#8217;s primary election. Moreover, the Court declared that Section 77 of the Electoral Act had been misapplied, emphasizing that no court possessed jurisdiction over the issue of party membership.<\/p>\n<p>This ruling signifies a pivotal moment in the election dispute, casting new light on the representation of the Kura\/Madobi\/Garun Malam Federal Constituency. As a result, Yusuf Datti&#8217;s candidacy has been reinstated, and the electoral landscape is set to undergo a significant shift, with implications for both the New Nigeria People&#8217;s Party and the All Progressives Congress in the constituency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja has overturned the election victory of Musa Ilyasu Kwankwaso from the All Progressives Congress and reinstated Yusuf Umar Datti, a candidate from the New Nigeria People&#8217;s Party, in the Kura\/Madobi\/Garun Malam Federal Constituency Election. The panel, presided over by Justice Tunde Oyebamiji Awotoye, upheld an Appeal filed by Yusuf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4349","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\/4349","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4386,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}