{"id":150741,"date":"2019-09-09T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T15:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150741"},"modified":"2019-09-09T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T15:58:41","slug":"ashiru-vs-el-rufai-tribunal-makes-final-pronouncement-on-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150741","title":{"rendered":"Ashiru vs El-Rufai: Tribunal makes final pronouncement on case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ashiru-vs-El-Rufai-Tribunal-makes-final-pronouncement-on-case.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>The governorship election tribunal sitting in Kaduna state has struck out Isa Ashiru\u2019s petition and has now declared Mallam Nasir El-Rufai of the All Progressive Congress, APC as substantive governor of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Ashiru, the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s flag bearer in the election stormed the elections tribunal headed by Justice Ibrahim Bako, challenging El-Rufai\u2019s victory at the 9th March 2019 gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Bako, while striking out the petition said it lacks substantial evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, APC supporters were in the court premises as early as 6am to show their support and solidarity to governor Nasiru El-Rufai.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the tribunal\u2019s verdict, they went into wild celebration, dancing and chanting \u201csai Mallam\u201d, meaning El-Rufai or nobody.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governorship election tribunal sitting in Kaduna state has struck out Isa Ashiru\u2019s petition and has now declared Mallam Nasir El-Rufai of the All Progressive Congress, APC as substantive governor of the state. Ashiru, the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s flag bearer in the election stormed the elections tribunal headed by Justice Ibrahim Bako, challenging El-Rufai\u2019s victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150742,"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":[2830,3,4],"tags":[11057,11212,218],"class_list":["post-150741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","category-politics","tag-elrufai-2","tag-isah-kudan","tag-kaduna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150741","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=150741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}