{"id":95234,"date":"2023-09-06T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment"},"modified":"2023-09-06T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T11:08:25","slug":"atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment","title":{"rendered":"Atiku, Obi absent as Tribunal delivers judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku and his counterpart in the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi are conspicuously absent at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal where judgment in their petitions are to be delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, no notable politician from the PDP is in court.<\/p>\n<p>However, Labour Party was represented by Julius Abure, the national chairman of the party.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of this report, the Tribunal members led by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani have arrived to deliver judgment on the three petitions<\/p>\n<p>Justice Tsammani has ordered that judgment in the petition of Peter Obi and Labour party be first delivered.<\/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. Former Vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku and his counterpart in the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi are conspicuously absent at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal where judgment in their petitions are to be delivered. Apart from Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, no notable politician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":95232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,316,254,4891],"class_list":["post-95234","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-atiku","tag-nigeria","tag-obi"],"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>Atiku, Obi absent as Tribunal delivers judgment - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku and his counterpar ...\" \/>\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\/atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atiku, Obi absent as Tribunal delivers judgment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku and his counterpar ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-06T08:25:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-06T11:08:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/sm_1693982201.979816.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1112\" \/>\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\/atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Atiku, Obi absent as Tribunal delivers judgment\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-06T08:25:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-06T11:08:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment\"},\"wordCount\":133,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/sm_1693982201.979816.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Atiku\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/atiku-obi-absent-as-tribunal-delivers-judgment\",\"name\":\"Atiku, Obi absent as Tribunal delivers judgment - 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