{"id":2575,"date":"2023-11-17T12:09:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lagos-appeal-court-sacks-lps-doherty-declares-apcs-age-suleiman-winner\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:09:57","slug":"lagos-appeal-court-sacks-lps-doherty-declares-apcs-age-suleiman-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lagos-appeal-court-sacks-lps-doherty-declares-apcs-age-suleiman-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos: Appeal Court sacks LP\u2019s Doherty, declares APC\u2019s Age-Suleiman winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Appeal Court has sacked Labour Party, LP\u2019s Olukayode Doherty and declared the All Progressives Congress, APC\u2019s Rauf Age-Suleiman as the winner of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Amuwo-Odofin II Constituency election.<\/p>\n<p>The court upheld an earlier ruling by the Election Petition Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal had ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to present Sulaiman with the certificate of return as the winner of the election.<\/p>\n<p>The court held that the Electoral Act 2022 does not allow a candidate to be declared winner if the candidate did not fully participate in the election process.<\/p>\n<p>Lagos: Appeal Court sacks LP\u2019s Doherty, declares APC\u2019s Age-Suleiman winner<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Appeal Court has sacked Labour Party, LP\u2019s Olukayode Doherty and declared the All Progressives Congress, APC\u2019s Rauf Age-Suleiman as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4430,4242,4184,385,15,3],"tags":[4431,96,306,135,164,180,249],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-age-suleiman","category-apc","category-appeal-court","category-lagos","category-news","category-politics","tag-age-suleiman","tag-apc","tag-appeal","tag-court","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}