{"id":102301,"date":"2023-11-27T21:38:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T20:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory"},"modified":"2023-11-28T00:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:28:39","slug":"sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory","title":{"rendered":"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as governor of Sokoto State.<\/p>\n

A three-member panel of justices of the court affirmed Aliyu as winner of the March 18 governorship election after dismissing the appeal of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Saidu Umar.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST reported that the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Jos, Sokoto State had upheld the victory of Aliyu of the APC in an earlier judgment.<\/p>\n

The tribunal ruled that the petitioners, the PDP and its candidate, failed to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n

The PDP and its candidate, Saidu Umar, had approached the tribunal challenging the victory of APC and its candidate, Ahmad Aliyu, in the March 18 governorship election in the state.<\/p>\n

They extended their search for justice to the Appeal Court where they also lost on Monday.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as governor of Sokoto State. A three-member panel of justices of the court affirmed Aliyu as winner of the March 18 governorship election after dismissing the appeal of the governorship candidate of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":102300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,4853,1578,69,254,11395],"class_list":["post-102301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-aliyu","tag-breaking","tag-court","tag-nigeria","tag-sokoto-guber"],"yoast_head":"\nSokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as governor ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as governor ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-27T20:38:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-27T23:28:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1701110851.654759.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-27T20:38:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-27T23:28:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory\"},\"wordCount\":169,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1701110851.654759.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"aliyu\",\"breaking\",\"court\",\"Nigeria\",\"sokoto guber\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory\",\"name\":\"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1701110851.654759.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-27T20:38:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-27T23:28:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as governor ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1701110851.654759.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1701110851.654759.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory - Nigeria","description":"The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as governor ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory","og_description":"The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as governor ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2023-11-27T20:38:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-11-27T23:28:39+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1701110851.654759.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory","datePublished":"2023-11-27T20:38:59+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-27T23:28:39+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory"},"wordCount":169,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1701110851.654759.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","aliyu","breaking","court","Nigeria","sokoto guber"],"articleSection":["all news","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory","name":"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1701110851.654759.jpg","datePublished":"2023-11-27T20:38:59+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-27T23:28:39+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as governor ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1701110851.654759.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/sm_1701110851.654759.jpg","width":1200,"height":720,"caption":"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sokoto-guber-appeal-court-affirms-gov-aliyus-victory#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sokoto Guber: Appeal Court affirms Gov Aliyu\u2019s victory"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}