{"id":43454,"date":"2012-01-27T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/01\/nigeria-supreme-court-sacks-bayelsa-adamawa-sokoto-criver-kogi-govs\/"},"modified":"2012-01-27T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:08:12","slug":"nigeria-supreme-court-sacks-bayelsa-adamawa-sokoto-criver-kogi-govs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/01\/27\/nigeria-supreme-court-sacks-bayelsa-adamawa-sokoto-criver-kogi-govs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Supreme Court Sacks Bayelsa, Adamawa, Sokoto, C\/River, Kogi Govs"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/vanguard180.jpg\" alt=\"Vanguard (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Vanguard (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ikechukwu Nnochiri<\/p>\n<p>27 January 2012<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The Supreme Court has in a judgement delivered, Friday morning, sacked the five governors of Bayelsa, Adamawa, Sokoto, C\/River, Kogi state from their respective office.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous decision, a 7-man panel of justices of the apex court, maintained that the affected governors exceeded the 4-years tenure that was specifically stipulated in section 180(2) of the 1999 constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Counsequently,it made an order setting aside the two lower courts judgments that ab-initio elongated the tenure of the governors till this year.<\/p>\n<p>The affected governors areTimipre Sylva(Bayelsa) Magatakada Wamakko,(Sokoto) Liyel Imoke(C\/River) Ibrahim Idris(Kogi) and Murtala Nyako( Adamawa)<\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ikechukwu Nnochiri 27 January 2012 The Supreme Court has in a judgement delivered, Friday morning, sacked the five governors of Bayelsa, Adamawa, Sokoto, C\/River, Kogi state from their respective office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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