{"id":245495,"date":"2026-09-25T04:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-voids-pantamis-pdp-guber-candidacy-orders-fresh-primary-in-gombe\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T04:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:30:19","slug":"nigeria-court-voids-pantamis-pdp-guber-candidacy-orders-fresh-primary-in-gombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-court-voids-pantamis-pdp-guber-candidacy-orders-fresh-primary-in-gombe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Court Voids Pantami&#8217;s PDP Guber Candidacy, Orders Fresh Primary in Gombe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Federal High Court in Gombe has nullified the Peoples Democratic Party&#8217;s (PDP) nomination of Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami as its candidate for the 2027 governorship election in Gombe State, directing the party to conduct a fresh primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Justice Amina Aliyu Mohammed delivered the judgment on Thursday in a suit instituted by another PDP governorship aspirant, Usman Aliyu Garry, who challenged the legality of the process through which Pantami emerged as the party&#8217;s candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Garry had&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609240477.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Federal High Court in Gombe has nullified the Peoples Democratic Party&#8217;s (PDP) nomination of Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami as its candidate for the 2027 governorship election in Gombe State, directing the party to conduct a fresh primary. Justice Amina Aliyu Mohammed delivered the judgment on Thursday in a suit instituted by another PDP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":245496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9129,6185,8936,364,25039,257,4687,393,6186,55513,905,7518,254,45250],"class_list":["post-245495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-candidacy","tag-court","tag-fresh","tag-gombe","tag-guber","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-orders","tag-pantamis","tag-pdp","tag-primary","tag-south-africa-today","tag-voids"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/245495","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=245495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}