{"id":15205,"date":"2023-09-06T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15205"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:00:42","slug":"tribunal-declares-natasha-winner-kogi-central-senatorial-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15205","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal Declares Natasha Winner Kogi Central Senatorial Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Kogi State Election Petitions Tribunal has declared Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan of the Peoples Democratic Party as the winner of the Kogi Central Senatorial election held in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It also invalidated the victory of Senator Abubakar Ohere of the All Progressives Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Tribunal Chairman, Justice K. A. Orjiako, delivered the unanimous judgment of the three-man panel, revealing that Sen. Ohere\u2019s results were inflated in nine polling units in the Ajaokuta Local Government Area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He added that the Independent National Electoral Commission reduced Natasha\u2019s results in those areas and omitted the results of three other polling units meant for Natasha in the same LGA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following the necessary corrections, the court declared Natasha as the winner of the election with 54,074 votes, surpassing Ohere, who garnered\u00a051,291\u00a0votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kogi State Election Petitions Tribunal has declared Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan of the Peoples Democratic Party as the winner of the Kogi Central Senatorial election held in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7524,7525,3241],"class_list":["post-15205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-kogi-central-senatorial-election","tag-natasha-akpoti-uduagan","tag-tribunal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205"}],"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=15205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15207,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205\/revisions\/15207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}