{"id":126852,"date":"2024-08-05T08:59:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T07:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls"},"modified":"2024-08-05T10:07:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T09:07:56","slug":"delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls","title":{"rendered":"Delta LG election: LP wants tribunal to cancel polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Not satisfied with the result of the recently concluded council polls in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, the Labour Party, LP, in the state has called for cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>The party has filed a petition at the Delta State Local Government Election Petition Tribunal in Asaba, citing \u201csubstantial non-compliance with the provisions of the electoral act\u201d as the basis for its petition.<\/p>\n<p>The party faulted the election results, which saw DSIEC declare Jude Chukwunweike of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the duly elected winner.<\/p>\n<p>In its petition, LP named DSIEC, Jude Chukwunweike, and PDP as the first, second, and third respondents, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>According to LP: \u201cWe argue that the election did not occur in nearly all DSIEC wards in Aniocha South, leaving thousands of eligible voters unable to exercise their franchise due to the absence of voting materials at their units.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, LP alleged: \u201cNone of our agents signed the purported result sheets that DSIEC allegedly falsified to declare the PDP candidate as the winner [which] \u2018s an action that violates electoral laws.\u201d<\/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. Not satisfied with the result of the recently concluded council polls in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, the Labour Party, LP, in the state has called for cancellation. The party has filed a petition at the Delta State Local Government Election Petition Tribunal in Asaba, citing \u201csubstantial non-compliance with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":126851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[449,5506,254],"class_list":["post-126852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-delta","tag-lp","tag-nigeria"],"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>Delta LG election: LP wants tribunal to cancel polls - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Not satisfied with the result of the recently concluded council polls in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta St ...\" \/>\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\/delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Delta LG election: LP wants tribunal to cancel polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not satisfied with the result of the recently concluded council polls in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta St ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-05T07:59:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-05T09:07:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sm_1722832642.98977.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\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\/delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Delta LG election: LP wants tribunal to cancel polls\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-05T07:59:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-05T09:07:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls\"},\"wordCount\":197,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sm_1722832642.98977.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Delta\",\"LP\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/delta-lg-election-lp-wants-tribunal-to-cancel-polls\",\"name\":\"Delta LG election: LP wants tribunal to cancel polls - 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