{"id":112633,"date":"2019-11-23T04:17:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T03:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=112633"},"modified":"2019-11-23T04:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T03:17:13","slug":"appeal-court-affirms-gandujes-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/appeal-court-affirms-gandujes-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court affirms Ganduje\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna on Friday affirmed the election of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>The five-man panel of Appeal Court Judges led by Justice Tijjani Abubakar unanimously ruled that, the appeal filled by Abba Kabiru Yusuf and his party, the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) lacks merit.<\/p>\n<p>They, therefore, dismissed the appeal in its entirety and affirmed that, Governor Ganduje was elected by the majority of Kano voters.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, counsel to the appellants, the PDP and Abba Kabiru Yusuf, Bashir Yusuf Muhammad said they will appeal the judgement.<\/p>\n<p>He said, the reasons for the decisions arrived in the judgement had not been given.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWe will get the full judgement to know the basis of the judgement before proceeding to the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna on Friday affirmed the election of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State. The five-man panel of Appeal Court Judges led by Justice Tijjani Abubakar unanimously ruled that, the appeal filled by Abba Kabiru Yusuf and his party, the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) lacks merit. They, therefore, dismissed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":95387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,15,2,4],"tags":[2176,24714,51891,3541],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Appeal Court affirms Ganduje\u2019s election | New Mail Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/appeal-court-affirms-gandujes-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Appeal Court affirms Ganduje\u2019s election | New Mail Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna on Friday affirmed the election of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State. 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