{"id":6350,"date":"2023-11-15T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2023-11-15T15:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:24:45","slug":"just-in-acourt-reverses-judgment-in-nasarawa-state-governorship-election-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/15\/just-in-acourt-reverses-judgment-in-nasarawa-state-governorship-election-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Just In: A&#8217;Court Reverses Judgment in Nasarawa State Governorship Election Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja made a significant decision on Wednesday as it annulled the judgment in the appeal filed by Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, challenging the tribunal&#8217;s declaration of David Ombugadu, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, as the winner of the state&#8217;s governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>The original tribunal, led by Justice Ezekiel Ajayi, delivered a split judgment, asserting that Ombugadu secured more valid votes based on evidence from various polling units.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Sule promptly appealed the decision, urging the appellate court to overturn the tribunal&#8217;s judgment. In the hearing on Wednesday, counsel for the governor, Wole Olanipekun SAN, argued that the tribunal had erroneously applied the law in its verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Olanipekun contended that the tribunal&#8217;s decision heavily relied on the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machine presented as evidence, without proper demonstration by either the petitioners or the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja made a significant decision on Wednesday as it annulled the judgment in the appeal filed by Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, challenging the tribunal&#8217;s declaration of David Ombugadu, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, as the winner of the state&#8217;s governorship election. The original tribunal, led by Justice Ezekiel Ajayi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350","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=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6368,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/6368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}