{"id":742326,"date":"2019-11-11T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/11\/appeal-court-upholds-dapo-abioduns-election-victory\/"},"modified":"2019-11-11T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T17:00:57","slug":"appeal-court-upholds-dapo-abioduns-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/11\/appeal-court-upholds-dapo-abioduns-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal Court Upholds Dapo Abiodun&#8217;s Election Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on Monday ruled in favour of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_662946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-662946\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-662946\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Dapo-Abiodun.jpg\" alt=\"Ogun state governor Dapo Abiodun\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-662946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ogun state governor Dapo Abiodun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An appeal was filed by Ogun State Governorship candidate of Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Adekunle Akinlade challenging Governor Dapo Abiodun\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0\u201cUnspeakable Joy\u201d, Dapo Abiodun says as he thrashes Amosun candidate at the polls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Justice Yusuf Halilu \u2013 led Election Petition Tribunal had on September 14 dismissed the petition filed by Akinlade over failure to prove the allegations<\/p>\n<p>In an unanimous decision on Monday, the Appeal court justices said the appeal \u201clacks merit and it is therefore struck out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on Monday ruled in favour of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State. Ogun state governor Dapo Abiodun An appeal was filed by Ogun State Governorship candidate of Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Adekunle Akinlade challenging Governor Dapo Abiodun\u2019s victory. Also Read:\u00a0\u201cUnspeakable Joy\u201d, Dapo Abiodun says as he thrashes Amosun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742326","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>Appeal Court Upholds Dapo Abiodun&#039;s Election Victory - 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\/11\/appeal-court-upholds-dapo-abioduns-election-victory\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Appeal Court Upholds Dapo Abiodun&#039;s Election Victory - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on Monday ruled in favour of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State. 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