{"id":107775,"date":"2023-09-14T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=107775"},"modified":"2023-09-14T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:50:40","slug":"appeal-court-rejects-elumelu-returns-lps-okolie-as-winner-of-aniocha-oshimili-reps-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/appeal-court-rejects-elumelu-returns-lps-okolie-as-winner-of-aniocha-oshimili-reps-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court rejects Elumelu, returns LP&#8217;s Okolie as winner of Aniocha\/Oshimili Reps election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Court of Appeal in Abuja has overturned the July 24 ruling made by the National and State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal in Asaba which declared Ndudi Elumelu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the victor in the recent election for the Aniocha\/Oshimili Federal Constituency of Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja has set aside the July 24 judgment by the National and State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal in Asaba, declaring Ndudi Elumelu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the last election for Aniocha\/Oshimili Federal Constituency of Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>In two judgments on Thursday, the appellate court declared Ngozi Okolie of the Labour Party (LP) as\u00a0 winner of the election.<\/p>\n<p>It faulted the tribunal for voiding Okolie\u2019s election and proceeded to dismiss the petition filed by Elumelu before the trial tribunal and on which the voided judgment was given.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal agreed with lawyer to the Labour Party, Mahmud Magaji (SAN) that contrary to the finding of the tribunal, Okolie was duly nominated and sponsored by his party and that he resigned his appointment as a Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Delta State Government as required by the Constitution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja has overturned the July 24 ruling made by the National and State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal in Asaba which declared Ndudi Elumelu of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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