{"id":72696,"date":"2022-09-20T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba"},"modified":"2022-09-20T18:24:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T17:24:31","slug":"court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba","title":{"rendered":"Court nullifies APC governorship primary in Taraba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo on Tuesday nullified the Taraba governorship primary election that produced Emmanuel Bwacha as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 election.<\/p>\n<p>David Kente, an aggrieved aspirant, had dragged the party and its candidate to court over the recognition of Bwacha as the candidate of the party.<\/p>\n<p>In his ruling, the presiding Judge, Justice Simon Amobeda, ordered that a fresh primary election be conducted within 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>The court also ordered Bwacha to stop parading himself as the governorship candidate of the APC.<\/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. A Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo on Tuesday nullified the Taraba governorship primary election that produced Emmanuel Bwacha as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 election. David Kente, an aggrieved aspirant, had dragged the party and its candidate to court over the recognition of Bwacha as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":72695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,34,1578,69,254,3685],"class_list":["post-72696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apc","tag-breaking","tag-court","tag-nigeria","tag-taraba"],"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>Court nullifies APC governorship primary in Taraba - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo on Tuesday nullified the Taraba governorship primary election that produced Emma ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court nullifies APC governorship primary in Taraba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo on Tuesday nullified the Taraba governorship primary election that produced Emma ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-20T15:12:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-20T17:24:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_33-6329f70b7b0f7.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\/parties\/court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Court nullifies APC governorship primary in Taraba\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-20T15:12:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-20T17:24:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba\"},\"wordCount\":109,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_33-6329f70b7b0f7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"breaking\",\"court\",\"Nigeria\",\"taraba\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-apc-governorship-primary-in-taraba\",\"name\":\"Court nullifies APC governorship primary in Taraba - 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