{"id":15199,"date":"2023-09-06T15:44:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T15:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15199"},"modified":"2023-09-06T15:44:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T15:44:57","slug":"25-requirement-fct-not-special-than-other-states-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15199","title":{"rendered":"25% Requirement: FCT Not Special Than Other States \u2013 Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has declared that the Federal Capital Territory does not hold a higher status than other states in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Justice Haruna Tsammani, the lead judge of the five-man panel declared this during the tribunal\u2019s sitting on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to him, Section 134 (1) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) stipulates that a presidential candidate must attain or score a majority of votes cast in a presidential election, where two or more candidates are involved, and at least 25% in two-thirds of the 36 States and FCT to meet the constitutional requirement to be declared as duly elected as President\u00a0of\u00a0Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has declared that the Federal Capital Territory does not hold a higher status than other states in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7522,2615,3241],"class_list":["post-15199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-25-requirement","tag-fct","tag-tribunal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15201,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15199\/revisions\/15201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}