{"id":96690,"date":"2023-10-02T11:55:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor"},"modified":"2023-10-02T14:41:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:41:13","slug":"tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal dismisses NNPP petition against Nasarawa Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nasarawa State Governorship Election Tribunal, on Monday, dismissed the petition filed by the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP) governorship candidate in the 2023 general election, Abdullahi Maidoya.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that Maidoya had dragged Governor Abdullahi Sule to court after the declaration of Abdullahi Sule as the winner of the March 18, 2023 governorship election in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The three-man panel, led by Justice Ezekiel Ajayi, said, \u201cthe petition lacks merit and is hereby dismissed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the petitioner failed to prove his case beyond reasonable doubt for alleged over voting, disruption of votes, among others.<\/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 Nasarawa State Governorship Election Tribunal, on Monday, dismissed the petition filed by the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP) governorship candidate in the 2023 general election, Abdullahi Maidoya. It would be recalled that Maidoya had dragged Governor Abdullahi Sule to court after the declaration of Abdullahi Sule as the winner of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":96688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,1164,254,2540],"class_list":["post-96690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-nasarawa","tag-nigeria","tag-nnpp"],"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>Tribunal dismisses NNPP petition against Nasarawa Governor - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nasarawa State Governorship Election Tribunal, on Monday, dismissed the petition filed by the New Nigeria People\u2019s P ...\" \/>\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\/tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tribunal dismisses NNPP petition against Nasarawa Governor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nasarawa State Governorship Election Tribunal, on Monday, dismissed the petition filed by the New Nigeria People\u2019s P ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-02T10:55:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-10-02T13:41:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696235213.758743.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\/tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tribunal dismisses NNPP petition against Nasarawa Governor\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-02T10:55:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-02T13:41:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor\"},\"wordCount\":116,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1696235213.758743.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"Nasarawa\",\"Nigeria\",\"NNPP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-dismisses-nnpp-petition-against-nasarawa-governor\",\"name\":\"Tribunal dismisses NNPP petition against Nasarawa Governor - 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