{"id":29494,"date":"2014-07-26T18:06:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=29494"},"modified":"2014-07-26T18:06:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T17:06:03","slug":"anambra-guber-ngige-loses-appeal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/anambra-guber-ngige-loses-appeal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Anambra Guber: Ngige loses at Appeal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"messagecontent\">\n<div class=\"leftcol\">\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div class=\"message-htmlpart\">\n<div class=\"rcmBody\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"color: #606263; text-align: justify;\">The Enugu zone of the Court of Appeal has \u00a0dismissed the appeal brought before it by\u00a0the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 16, 2013 election.\u00a0Chris Ngige.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #606263; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Ngige had prayed \u00a0the appeal court to overturn the verdict of the Anambra State Governorship Election Tribunal that had earlier upheld the election of Willie Obiano of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as the Anambra governor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #606263; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Justice Mohammed Lawal Garba led a panel of five justices in considering the appeal filed by Mr. Ngige who sought a ruling setting aside the verdict of the tribunal and a determination that the election had failed to comply with electoral laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #606263; text-align: justify;\">In rejecting the appeal , the appellate court ratified the election that brought Mr. Obiano into office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #606263; text-align: justify;\">Today\u2019s verdict marks the final stage of any legal challenge to the election of Mr. Obiano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #606263; text-align: justify;\">Mr. Obiano was sworn in in March 2014 to succeed former Governor Peter Obi, also of APGA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\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 Enugu zone of the Court of Appeal has \u00a0dismissed the appeal brought before it by\u00a0the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 16, 2013 election.\u00a0Chris Ngige.&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":18600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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