{"id":193618,"date":"2020-02-14T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T10:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193618"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:01:02","slug":"tension-jubilation-in-bayelsa-over-supreme-court-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193618","title":{"rendered":"Tension, Jubilation In Bayelsa Over Supreme Court Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/02\/Tension-Jubilation-In-Bayelsa-Over-Supreme-Court-Judgment.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, is currently witnessing a heavy presence of security personnel following Thursday\u2019s ruling of the Supreme Court in Abuja, which nullified the election that produced All Progressive Congress candidate, David Lyon, as governor-elect of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon and his running mate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo, were sacked by the apex court, clearing the way for Diri Douye of the Peoples Democratic Party to emerge as new governor-elect of Bayelsa.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Ejembi Ekwo, the court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to withdraw the certificate of return issued to Lyon and hand a fresh one to Duoye after it was discovered that the academic credentials submitted to INEC by Degi-Eremieoyo were forged.<\/p>\n<p>Resident of Yenagoa especially PDP supporters have since been jubilating all across the city following the ruling delivered earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Douye is expected to be sworn-in as substantive governor of Bayelsa on Friday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State, is currently witnessing a heavy presence of security personnel following Thursday\u2019s ruling of the Supreme Court in Abuja, which nullified the election that produced All Progressive Congress candidate, David Lyon, as governor-elect of the state. Lyon and his running mate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo, were sacked by the apex court, clearing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[14285,2658,29,14284,58],"class_list":["post-193618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bayelsa-2","tag-a","tag-apc","tag-douye-diri","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193618","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=193618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}