{"id":43559,"date":"2020-10-02T14:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=43559"},"modified":"2020-10-02T14:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:05:54","slug":"breaking-appeal-court-upholds-diris-election-as-bayelsa-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/breaking-appeal-court-upholds-diris-election-as-bayelsa-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Appeal Court Upholds Diri\u2019s Election As Bayelsa Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday upturned the August 17, 2020 verdict of the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal which had sacked Governor Duoye Diri from office and ordered fresh poll to be conducted within 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>A five-man panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Adezila Mshelia set aside the tribunal\u2019s verdict and affirmed Diri\u2019s election in its judgment delivered on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The three-man election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja had, in a split decision of two-to-one, nullified the November 16, 2019 Bayelsa State governorship election as a result of the unlawful exclusion of the Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party and its candidate, King George, from the exercise.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Dissatisfied with the judgment, Diri, his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, and the Independent National Electoral Commission had filed separate appeals against it.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal upheld the appeals on Friday by holding that ANDP was not unlawfully excluded from the election.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday upturned the August 17, 2020 verdict of the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal which had sacked Governor Duoye Diri from office and ordered fresh poll to be conducted within 90 days.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7467,7466,7468],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-43559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-bayelsa-state-governorship-election-petitions-tribunal","tag-court-of-appeal-in-abuja","tag-governor-duoye-diri"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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