{"id":95665,"date":"2023-09-16T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/supreme-court-refuses-to-nullify-mbahs-election"},"modified":"2023-09-16T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T12:25:39","slug":"supreme-court-refuses-to-nullify-mbahs-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/supreme-court-refuses-to-nullify-mbahs-election","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court refuses to nullify Mbah\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Supreme Court on Friday refused to nullify the election of Enugu State governor Peter Mbah.<\/p>\n<p>The court dismissed an appeal filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Uche Nnaji.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous decision by a five-member panel of Justices, the apex court held that Nnaji and his party filed an invalid brief of argument, which rendered their appeal incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the court noted that Nnaji failed to explain why the invalid process he filed should be relied upon to invalidate Mbah\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal in Enugu had in July dismissed Nnaji\u2019s case against Mbah.<\/p>\n<p>Nnaji had challenged governor Mbah\u2019s victory, alleging that the majority of the lawful votes cast had not duly elected him.<\/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. The Supreme Court on Friday refused to nullify the election of Enugu State governor Peter Mbah. The court dismissed an appeal filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Uche Nnaji. In a unanimous decision by a five-member panel of Justices, the apex court held that Nnaji and his party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":95664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,8515,254,620],"class_list":["post-95665","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-mbah","tag-nigeria","tag-supreme-court"],"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>Supreme Court refuses to nullify Mbah\u2019s election - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court on Friday refused to nullify the election of Enugu State governor Peter Mbah. 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