{"id":58817,"date":"2018-11-06T00:42:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T23:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=58817"},"modified":"2018-11-06T00:43:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T23:43:05","slug":"2019-jerry-gana-asks-court-to-disqualify-donald-duke-as-sdp-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=58817","title":{"rendered":"2019: Jerry Gana asks court to disqualify Donald Duke as SDP presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/donald-duke.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Professor Jerry Gana, has asked the FCT High Court in the Maitama, to disqualify Donald Duke as the party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Gana asked the court to nullify the emergence of the former Cross River State governor, on the grounds that the process that produced him violated the constitution of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Duke polled 812 votes to defeat the former Minister, who scored 611 votes at the SDP National Convention in Abuja on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the party\u2019s constitution as provided under section 15(3), it was stipulated that the party will respect the principle of rotation and zoning because it is important to building up of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe provision specifies that the position of national chairman of SDP cannot come from the same part of Nigeria,\u201d Gana said.<\/p>\n<p>The case has been adjourned till November 13 due to the indisposition of the presiding judge, Justice Husseini Baba Yusuf.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Professor Jerry Gana, has asked the FCT High Court in the Maitama, to disqualify Donald Duke as the party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections. Gana asked the court to nullify the emergence of the former Cross River State governor, on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12612,"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":[2830,3,4],"tags":[5272,1688,4428],"class_list":["post-58817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","category-politics","tag-donald-duke","tag-jerry-gana","tag-sdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58817","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=58817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}