{"id":125168,"date":"2024-07-22T15:53:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T14:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/edo-guber-shaibu-loses-as-appeal-court-re-affirms-ighodalo-as-pdp-candidate"},"modified":"2024-07-22T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T16:00:26","slug":"edo-guber-shaibu-loses-as-appeal-court-re-affirms-ighodalo-as-pdp-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-guber-shaibu-loses-as-appeal-court-re-affirms-ighodalo-as-pdp-candidate","title":{"rendered":"Edo guber: Shaibu loses as Appeal Court re-affirms Ighodalo as PDP candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja presided over by Justice A. M. Lamido, has reaffirmed the nomination of Asue Ighodalo as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Lamido in the suit marked CA\/ABJ\/CV\/642\/2024, the appellate court on Monday threw out an appeal brought by former deputy governor, Philip Shaibu.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Shaibu had challenged the May 27th judgment of Justice James Omotosho of the Abuja Federal High Court, which declared Ighodalo as the rightful and duly nominated candidate of the PDP in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>The appellate court held that the trial court was right and unassailable in its ruling, determining that Shaibu did not meet the condition precedent before instituting the action, rendering the suit premature.<\/p>\n<p>The appellate court also affirmed the trial court\u2019s decision that Shaibu failed to prove his allegations of vote allocation against the respondent, noting that conduct of the election and its results are presumed regular until proven otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Shaibu\u2019s affidavit provided no evidence to show votes were allocated to the 4th respondent, the appellate court ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the court dismissed Shaibu\u2019s case and awarded a cost of N1 million against him in favour of the respective respondents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja presided over by Justice A. M. Lamido, has reaffirmed the nomination of Asue Ighodalo as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State. In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Lamido in the suit marked CA\/ABJ\/CV\/642\/2024, the appellate court on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":125167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[69,12578,2079,254,65,1530],"class_list":["post-125168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-court","tag-edo-guber","tag-ighodalo","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-shaibu"],"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>Edo guber: Shaibu loses as Appeal Court re-affirms Ighodalo as PDP candidate - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja presided over by Justice A. M. 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