{"id":15227,"date":"2023-09-06T22:15:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15227"},"modified":"2023-09-06T22:15:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:15:37","slug":"dapo-abiodun-congratulates-tinubu-shettima-over-tribunal-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15227","title":{"rendered":"Dapo Abiodun Congratulates Tinubu, Shettima Over Tribunal Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State on Wednesday congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President, Kashim Shettima on their resounding victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Tribunal, in a unanimous decision, threw out the petition filed by the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Atiku Abubakar, ruling that President Tinubu was duly elected on February 25 as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prince Abiodun said the tribunal\u2019s verdict was an affirmation of the trust reposed in the President by Nigerians as evidenced in the outcome of the presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He described the judgment as sound, detailed and comprehensive, noting that the judges displayed unmatched courage in the discharge of their duties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;It is heart warming that the tribunal judges did not succumb to intimidation by the opposition, who deployed various antics to sway the judgement in their favour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;The judgement is a further testament to the fact that the judiciary is the last hope of our people,&#8221; the governor said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State on Wednesday congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President, Kashim Shettima on their resounding victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2022,5129,7042,7533],"class_list":["post-15227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-dapo-abiodun","tag-kashim-shettima","tag-president-bola-ahmed-tinubu","tag-tribunal-verdict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227"}],"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=15227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15229,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15227\/revisions\/15229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}