{"id":188760,"date":"2025-01-16T13:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T11:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-asue-ighodalo-reaffirms-confidence-in-judiciary-amid-rising-tensions-at-edo-election-tribunal\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T11:42:44","slug":"nigeria-asue-ighodalo-reaffirms-confidence-in-judiciary-amid-rising-tensions-at-edo-election-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-asue-ighodalo-reaffirms-confidence-in-judiciary-amid-rising-tensions-at-edo-election-tribunal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Asue Ighodalo Reaffirms Confidence in Judiciary Amid Rising Tensions At Edo Election Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate Asue Ighodalo has expressed gratitude to the people of Edo State and reiterated his confidence in the judiciary as the tribunal proceedings over the disputed September 2024 governorship election intensify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse on Wednesday, Ighodalo addressed supporters&#8217; concerns while condemning acts of intimidation aimed at disrupting the legal process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">&#8220;We strongly believe that the judiciary will do the right thing,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501160236.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate Asue Ighodalo has expressed gratitude to the people of Edo State and reiterated his confidence in the judiciary as the tribunal proceedings over the disputed September 2024 governorship election intensify. Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse on Wednesday, Ighodalo addressed supporters&#8217; concerns while condemning acts of intimidation aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,50408,11665,12658,3119,50409,9830,257,4687,393,8132,6678,254,7182,4877],"class_list":["post-188760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asue","tag-confidence","tag-edo","tag-election","tag-ighodalo","tag-judiciary","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-reaffirms","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions","tag-tribunal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}