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The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna<\/a> has nullified the election of the member representing Tudunwada\/Doguwa Federal constituency, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, over irregularities.<\/p>\n

It could be recalled that the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Kano had upheld the victory of Doguwa, who is the majority leader of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Doguwa was challenged before the tribunal by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Air Commodore Salisu Shehu (rtd) with allegations of over-voting and other electoral malpractices.<\/p>\n

However, delivering judgement yesterday, Justice Oludotun Adefope-Okojie ordered the Independent National Election Commission (INEC) to conduct fresh election in the entire constituency within 90 days. Setting aside the tribunal judgement, the court nullified the entire election in the two local government areas which Doguwa represents, saying the whole process was marred by irregularities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna has nullified the election of the member representing Tudunwada\/Doguwa Federal constituency, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, over irregularities. It could be recalled that the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Kano had upheld the victory of Doguwa, who is the majority leader of the House of Representatives. Doguwa was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":17822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,173,65],"class_list":["post-17821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-parties","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"\nAPC suffers another Loss, Appeal court sacks Majority leader Doguwa - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna has nullified the election of the member representing Tudunwada\/Doguwa Federal constituency,\" \/>\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\/all-news\/apc-suffers-another-loss-appeal-court-sacks-majority-leader-doguwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APC suffers another Loss, Appeal court sacks Majority leader Doguwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna has nullified the election of the member representing Tudunwada\/Doguwa Federal constituency,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-suffers-another-loss-appeal-court-sacks-majority-leader-doguwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-10T19:51:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/images-13-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"653\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"365\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/apc-suffers-another-loss-appeal-court-sacks-majority-leader-doguwa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-suffers-another-loss-appeal-court-sacks-majority-leader-doguwa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"APC suffers another Loss, Appeal court sacks Majority leader Doguwa\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-10T19:51:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-suffers-another-loss-appeal-court-sacks-majority-leader-doguwa\"},\"wordCount\":144,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-suffers-another-loss-appeal-court-sacks-majority-leader-doguwa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/images-13-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Parties\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-suffers-another-loss-appeal-court-sacks-majority-leader-doguwa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-suffers-another-loss-appeal-court-sacks-majority-leader-doguwa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-suffers-another-loss-appeal-court-sacks-majority-leader-doguwa\",\"name\":\"APC suffers another Loss, Appeal court sacks Majority leader Doguwa - 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