{"id":741509,"date":"2019-11-10T07:19:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T07:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/10\/akpabio-may-return-to-senate-as-court-orders-rerun\/"},"modified":"2019-11-10T07:19:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T07:19:23","slug":"akpabio-may-return-to-senate-as-court-orders-rerun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/10\/akpabio-may-return-to-senate-as-court-orders-rerun\/","title":{"rendered":"Akpabio May Return To Senate As Court Orders Rerun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-667773\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Senator-Akpabio.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Akpabio Reveals How Men Of God Turned Against Him For Dumping PDP For APC\" width=\"750\" height=\"448\"  \/><br \/>An Appeal Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has ordered a rerun election in Akwa Ibom north-west senatorial district.<\/p>\n<p>Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of the state had contested alongside Chris Ekpeyong, a former deputy governor of the state, in February.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Ekpeyong of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), winner of the election.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio later filed a petition against Ekpeyong\u2019s victory at the tribunal, alleging that it was marred by irregularities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<\/strong>\u00a0Appeal Court Upholds Okorocha\u2019s Electoral Victory<\/p>\n<p>However, Akpabio\u2019s petition was set aside as \u201clacking in merit\u201d, adding that the petitioner failed to prove that he won the election as well as failed to present convincing evidence of non-compliance with electoral act as raised in his petition.<\/p>\n<p>He went further to appeal the verdict of the tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Appeal Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has ordered a rerun election in Akwa Ibom north-west senatorial district. Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of the state had contested alongside Chris Ekpeyong, a former deputy governor of the state, in February. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Ekpeyong of the Peoples Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Akpabio May Return To Senate As Court Orders Rerun - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/10\/akpabio-may-return-to-senate-as-court-orders-rerun\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Akpabio May Return To Senate As Court Orders Rerun - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"An Appeal Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has ordered a rerun election in Akwa Ibom north-west senatorial district. 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