{"id":264016,"date":"2020-09-29T16:06:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=264016"},"modified":"2020-09-29T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:15:54","slug":"kwara-apc-rejects-tribunals-verdict-on-patigi-bye-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=264016","title":{"rendered":"Kwara APC rejects tribunal&#8217;s verdict on Patigi bye-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Ruling All Progressives Congress in Kwara State, has rejected the judgement of the state House of Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal, which nullified the election of its candidate, Ahmed Adam representing Patigi constituency in the state Assembly.<br \/>\nThe tribunal on Monday, nullified the election of Adam over alleged irregularities in his names, and declared the PDP candidate, Salihu Yahaya Mohammed as winner of the bye election.<br \/>\nDelivering the judgement, the Chairman of the tribunal, Aminat Aliyu, said \u201d Adam\u2019s name on the EC9 form is different from the one on his primary school certificate, declaration of age, voter card and in the letter forwarded to the INEC on 15th January, 2019.\u201d<br \/>\nHowever, in a reaction, the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Folaranmi Aro, in a statement in Ilorin, said, \u201d The judgement was based on the difference between \u2018Adam\u2019 and \u2018Adama\u2019 on the certificate of the candidate of the APC, even though the PDP never called any witness from the examination body to substantiate its claim, that the APC candidate was not the owner of the certificates tendered for his election.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said, \u201cThe tribunal did not deny that we won the election overwhelmingly.<br \/>\n\u201cIt instead hid under a feeble excuse that the names of our candidate on the two certificates he presented to the electoral body, are slightly different from each other to award our mandate to the opposition.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is a sad day for democracy, as the judgement is a slap on the thousands of the electorate who stood in the sun to make their choice,\u201d the party added.<br \/>\nIt described the judgement as \u201ca violent attack on the position of the Supreme Court in many established cases where an alphabet was either omitted or added to a candidate\u2019s name.\u201d<br \/>\nAsserting that the party will appeal the judgement, because it signals a danger for Nigeria\u2019s democracy and stealing the mandate of the people, the party\u2019s spokesman, said, \u201cThe judgement is a judicial subversion of the mandate of the people.\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ruling All Progressives Congress in Kwara State, has rejected the judgement of the state House of Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal, which nullified the election of its candidate, Ahmed Adam representing Patigi constituency in the state Assembly. The tribunal on Monday, nullified the election of Adam over alleged irregularities in his names, and declared the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264017,"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":[2830,3],"tags":[2658,29,44,1893],"class_list":["post-264016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-a","tag-apc","tag-election","tag-kwara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264016","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=264016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}