{"id":3780,"date":"2023-11-24T16:10:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/appeal-court-upholds-election-of-kebbi-gov-idris-dismisses-pdps-appeal\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:10:45","slug":"appeal-court-upholds-election-of-kebbi-gov-idris-dismisses-pdps-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/appeal-court-upholds-election-of-kebbi-gov-idris-dismisses-pdps-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court upholds election of Kebbi Gov, Idris, dismisses PDP\u2019s appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the March 18 election of Nasir Idris as the lawfully elected governor of Kebbi State.<\/p>\n<p>The Court in a judgment delivered on Friday evening dismissed the appeal brought before it by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its governorship candidate, General Aminu Bande for lacking in merit.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Ndukwe Anyanwu, the Appellate Court resolved all the five issues formulated for determination in favour of the governor and against the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Anyanwu held that the allegations of forgery of testimonial brought against the Deputy Governor of the State, Abubakar Umar Tafida was not established as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>She also held that the issues of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act in the conduct of the election could not stand because the appellants failed to prove how the allegations substantially affected the election.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Anyanwu subsequently affirmed the judgment of the Kebbi State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal which had earlier dismissed the petition of PDP and affirmed the election of the governor.<\/p>\n<p>Details later\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Appeal Court upholds election of Kebbi Gov, Idris, dismisses PDP\u2019s appeal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the March 18 election of Nasir Idris as the lawfully elected governor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5225,15,761],"tags":[764,1517,180,762],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idris","category-news","category-top-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-idris","tag-news","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","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=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}