{"id":150348,"date":"2019-09-08T00:11:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T23:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150348"},"modified":"2019-09-08T00:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T23:11:09","slug":"tribunal-takes-final-decision-on-senator-omo-ageges-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150348","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal takes final decision on Senator Omo-Agege&#8217;s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BREAKING-NASS-Omo-Agege-appoints-senior-aides.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Delta State Election Tribunal sitting in Asaba on Saturday, dismissed the petition challenging the election of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, as the lawmaker representing Delta Central senatorial district.<\/p>\n<p>A three-man panel led by Justice Abdullahi Abubakar, struck out the suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Evelyn Oboro, for lacking in merit.<\/p>\n<p>Oboro had approached the Tribunal, seeking Omo-Agege\u2019s nullification, on the ground of alleged disqualification and non-compliance to the provisions of the 2010 Electoral Act as amended.<\/p>\n<p>But Justice Abubakar, while delivering judgment on the petition, maintained that the petition lacked in merit.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribunal was left with no option but to dismiss it in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar ruled that the petitioner could not adduce evidence to prove her allegations, adding that the petition was infected with the cancer of defectiveness.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State Election Tribunal sitting in Asaba on Saturday, dismissed the petition challenging the election of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, as the lawmaker representing Delta Central senatorial district. A three-man panel led by Justice Abdullahi Abubakar, struck out the suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Evelyn Oboro, for lacking in merit. Oboro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128457,"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":[],"class_list":["post-150348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150348","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=150348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}