{"id":98794,"date":"2023-10-27T22:15:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T21:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tribunal-upholds-wamakkos-election"},"modified":"2023-10-28T00:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T23:41:33","slug":"tribunal-upholds-wamakkos-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-upholds-wamakkos-election","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal upholds Wamakko\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Sokoto State has upheld the election of Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko as senator for Sokoto North Senatorial District.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced Wamakko of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the February 25 election. But his primary opponent and former deputy governor of the state, Manir Dan\u2019iya of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenged his victory at the tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>Ruling on the matter on Friday, Justice Josephine Oyefeso, chairperson of the panel, dismissed Dan\u2019iya\u2019s petition for lack of merit.<\/p>\n<p>Oyefeso said the petitioner was unable to prove the allegations contained in the petition beyond reasonable doubt, as required by law.<\/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 National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Sokoto State has upheld the election of Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko as senator for Sokoto North Senatorial District. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced Wamakko of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the February 25 election. But his primary opponent and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":98793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254,5712],"class_list":["post-98794","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-nigeria","tag-wamakko"],"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 upholds Wamakko\u2019s election - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Sokoto State has upheld the election of Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko as ...\" \/>\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-upholds-wamakkos-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tribunal upholds Wamakko\u2019s election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Sokoto State has upheld the election of Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko as ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-upholds-wamakkos-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-27T21:15:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-10-27T23:41:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1698433647.73887.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\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-upholds-wamakkos-election#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-upholds-wamakkos-election\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tribunal upholds Wamakko\u2019s election\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-27T21:15:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-27T23:41:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-upholds-wamakkos-election\"},\"wordCount\":132,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-upholds-wamakkos-election#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/10\/sm_1698433647.73887.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Wamakko\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-upholds-wamakkos-election#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-upholds-wamakkos-election\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tribunal-upholds-wamakkos-election\",\"name\":\"Tribunal upholds Wamakko\u2019s election - 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