{"id":45366,"date":"2015-12-31T22:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=45366"},"modified":"2015-12-31T22:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T21:00:59","slug":"appeal-court-sacks-gov-ikpeazu-of-abia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/appeal-court-sacks-gov-ikpeazu-of-abia\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court Sacks Gov Ikpeazu of Abia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1451586302493_5630\" dir=\"ltr\">The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has sacked the Governor of Abia State Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as governor of the state.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1451586302493_5593\" dir=\"ltr\">The Court in its judgement, on Thursday, announced the main rival, Dr. Alex Otti of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), as winner of the election held on March 28, 2015.<br \/>\nDr. Ikpeazu had been declared winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the verdict was upheld by the Abia State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia.<br \/>\nOtti, dissatisfied with the judgement of the Tribunal headed for the appellate court, which upheld his appeal and declared him winner of the ballot.<br \/>\nDr. Ikpeazu said he will proceed to the Supreme Court to challenge the judgement.<br \/>\nFrontier Newspaper<\/p>\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 sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has sacked the Governor of Abia State Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as governor 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":45367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45366","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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