{"id":191039,"date":"2025-02-10T14:39:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-supreme-court-reserves-judgement-on-appeals-seeking-to-nullify-rivers-lg-poll\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:39:03","slug":"nigeria-supreme-court-reserves-judgement-on-appeals-seeking-to-nullify-rivers-lg-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-supreme-court-reserves-judgement-on-appeals-seeking-to-nullify-rivers-lg-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Supreme Court Reserves Judgement On Appeals Seeking to Nullify Rivers LG Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Supreme Court has reserved its judgement on an appeal the All Progressives Congress, APC, filed to nullify the outcome of the local government elections held in Rivers State on October 5, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">A five-member panel of the apex court, led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, okayed the matter for judgement, after all the parties adopted their final briefs of argument.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">While the APC, through its lawyer, Mr. J. B. Daudu, SAN, urged the Supreme Court to set aside the November 21, 2024, judgement of the Abuja&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502100406.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>The Supreme Court has reserved its judgement on an appeal the All Progressives Congress, APC, filed to nullify the outcome of the local government elections held in Rivers State on October 5, 2024. A five-member panel of the apex court, led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, okayed the matter for judgement, after all the parties adopted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191040,"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":[258,256,4344,6185,10202,257,4687,393,43620,7517,11008,7865,7679,254,9498],"class_list":["post-191039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeals","tag-court","tag-judgement","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nullify","tag-poll","tag-reserves","tag-rivers","tag-seeking","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"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\/191039","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=191039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}