{"id":138460,"date":"2024-01-12T17:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/12\/supreme-court-affirms-alex-ottis-victory-as-abia-governor\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T17:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:25:40","slug":"supreme-court-affirms-alex-ottis-victory-as-abia-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/12\/supreme-court-affirms-alex-ottis-victory-as-abia-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Affirms Alex Otti\u2019s Victory As Abia Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Friday, affirmed the election victory of Alex Otti as the Governor of Abia state.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the apex court dismissed the appeals by the Peoples Democratic Party and its governorship candidate, Okey Ahiwe, and Ikechi Emenike of the All Progressive Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, while reading the lead judgment, held that the appellants failed to prove substantial non-compliance in their appeal.<\/p>\n<p>However, on the issue of Otti\u2019s membership, the appellant had contended that he wasn\u2019t validly nominated and sponsored by the Labour Party (LP) at the time of the election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Court Nullifies Alex Otti\u2019s Candidature, Other LP Candidates In Abia, Kano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The appellate court held that the issue of membership is an internal affair and as such lacks jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Alex Otti had scored 175,466 votes to defeat Okey Ahiwe of the PDP, who polled 88,529 votes in the election early last year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1824165439\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday, affirmed the election victory of Alex Otti as the Governor of Abia state. 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Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, while reading the lead judgment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court Affirms Alex Otti\u2019s Victory As Abia Governor - 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\/2024\/01\/12\/supreme-court-affirms-alex-ottis-victory-as-abia-governor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court Affirms Alex Otti\u2019s Victory As Abia Governor - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Supreme Court on Friday, affirmed the election victory of Alex Otti as the Governor of Abia state. 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