{"id":4358,"date":"2023-11-28T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T12:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/rivers-guber-appeal-court-dismisses-case-against-fubara\/"},"modified":"2023-11-28T12:03:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T12:03:31","slug":"rivers-guber-appeal-court-dismisses-case-against-fubara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/rivers-guber-appeal-court-dismisses-case-against-fubara\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Rivers guber: Appeal Court dismisses case against Fubara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An Appeal Court sitting in Lagos State on Tuesday, dismissed the petition filed by Tonye-Cole of the All Progressives Congress, APC, against Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Tonye-Cole wanted the Appeal Court to direct the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare him the winner of the March governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>He had told the court that Fubara was still signing documents as Accountant-General of the State even after his nomination as the governorship candidate of the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>He also alleged irregularities in the election, among other issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal had in October dismissed the petition, saying that the APC that sponsored Tonye-Cole had withdrawn the petition against Fubara\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p>Tonye-Cole, who was not satisfied with the Tribunal\u2019s judgment, approached the appellate court.<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Rivers guber: Appeal Court dismisses case against Fubara<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Appeal Court sitting in Lagos State on Tuesday, dismissed the petition filed by Tonye-Cole of the All Progressives Congress,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4184,4168,5215,15,3,5549,761],"tags":[306,1227,135,115,253,764,180,249,105,762],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appeal-court","category-breaking","category-fubara","category-news","category-politics","category-rivers-guber","category-top-headlines","tag-appeal","tag-breaking","tag-court","tag-fubara","tag-guber","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-rivers","tag-top"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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