{"id":120265,"date":"2019-05-24T17:18:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=120265"},"modified":"2019-05-24T17:18:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T16:18:34","slug":"ekiti-guber-supreme-court-rules-in-pdp-elekas-suit-against-fayemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=120265","title":{"rendered":"Ekiti guber: Supreme Court rules in PDP, Eleka’s suit against Fayemi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Kolapo Olusola-Eleka, challenging the election of Governor Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n

The election was held on July 14, 2018.<\/p>\n

On Friday, a five-man panel of the Supreme Court led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad unanimously held that the appeal challenging the outcome of the poll lacked merit.<\/p>\n

Justice John Okoro, who read the decision, upheld the judgments of both the Ekiti State Election Petition Tribunal and the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Fayemi and the All Progressives Congress polled a total of 197,459 votes to defeated Olusola-Eleka and the PDP who placed second with 178,121.<\/p>\n

PDP and Eleka had insisted that election was marred by a lot of wrongs including non-compliance with the Electoral Act.<\/p>\n

But the tribunal on January 28, 2019, dismissed their petition and affirmed the results declared by INEC.<\/p>\n

The petitioners further appealed to the Court of Appeal, where Justice Stephen Adah dismissed the case for lacking in merit, a decision agreed by other members of the panel \u2013 Justices Tinuade Akomolafe-Wilson and Emmanuel Agim.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Kolapo Olusola-Eleka, challenging the election of Governor Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The election was held on July 14, 2018. On Friday, a five-man panel of the Supreme Court led by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[594,6339],"class_list":["post-120265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ekiti","tag-kayode-fayemi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}