{"id":104289,"date":"2023-12-16T22:13:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T21:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/rivers-crisis-labour-party-drops-petition-against-fubara"},"modified":"2023-12-17T00:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T23:52:42","slug":"rivers-crisis-labour-party-drops-petition-against-fubara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-labour-party-drops-petition-against-fubara","title":{"rendered":"Rivers crisis: Labour Party drops petition against Fubara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Labour Party, LP, has dropped its petition against the election of Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara.<\/p>\n<p>Fubara was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 gubernatorial poll in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>Beatrice Itubo, the LP\u2019s governorship candidate in the state, revealed the withdrawal of the petition in an interview with Channels Television on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Itubo also pledged her support for Fubara\u2019s government for the progress of Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>The LP had challenged Fubara\u2019s victory but the Appeal Court sitting in Lagos dismissed its petition and upheld the PDP candidate\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>The alignment between Fubara and Itubo is the latest development in the political crisis rocking Rivers State, following a face-off between Fubara and his predecessor, Federal Capital Terrritory, FCT, Minister Nyesom Wike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Labour Party, LP, has dropped its petition against the election of Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara. Fubara was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 gubernatorial poll in Rivers State. Beatrice Itubo, the LP\u2019s governorship candidate in the state, revealed the withdrawal of the petition in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":104287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,10074,3634,254,11720],"class_list":["post-104289","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-fubara","tag-labour-party","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rivers crisis: Labour Party drops petition against Fubara - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Labour Party, LP, has dropped its petition against the election of Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara. 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