{"id":15328,"date":"2023-09-12T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15328"},"modified":"2023-09-12T12:19:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T12:19:46","slug":"obanikoro-vows-to-reclaim-mandate-as-election-tribunal-sacks-lagos-lp-reps-candidate-orders-rerun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15328","title":{"rendered":"Obanikoro Vows To Reclaim Mandate As Election Tribunal Sacks Lagos LP Reps Member, Orders Rerun"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15330\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15330\" src=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0772-300x179.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0772-300x179.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0772.jpeg 623w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2022Sacked LP House of Reps member, Thaddeus Attah.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">The National Assembly Election Tribunal sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos has nulified the election of the Labour Party House of Representatives member representing Eti-Osa Federal Constituency, Hon Thaddeus Attah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The three man panel led by Justice Faruku H. Bunza last night in its ruling also ordered INEC to conduct a supplementary election within 90 days in 32 disputed polling units.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Tribunal tha sat for 6 months before given its verdict was at the instance of the petition filed by the APC candidate in the election, Hon Babajide Obanikoro and that of the PDP, Bankole Wellington. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Mr Thaddeus Attah of the Labour Party<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>winner of the election held on February 25th, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prof Funmilayo Odukoya, who is the INEC Returning Officer announced that Attah won with 24,075 votes, beating his counterparts, Mr Olubankole Wellington (Banky W) of the Peoples Democratic Party who had 18,666 votes, and Mr Babajide Obanikoro of the APC, who had 16, 901 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In his reaction to the ruling of the Tribunal, Hon Babajide Obanikoro said his expectations were met by the ruling because the election was inconclusive and should have been declared as such on Election Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to him, his lawyers were able to prove irregularities in the conduct of the exercise at the tribunal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Obanikoro however expressed his readiness to reclaim his mandate adding the people of Eti-Osa identified with his track records during his first four years in the House of Representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Assembly Election Tribunal sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos has nulified the election of the Labour Party House of Representatives member representing Eti-Osa Federal Constituency, Hon Thaddeus Attah. The three man panel led by Justice Faruku H. Bunza last night in its ruling also ordered INEC to conduct a supplementary election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2329,7558,7561,7559],"class_list":["post-15328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-election-tribunal","tag-lagos-lp-reps-candidate","tag-orders-rerun","tag-rerun-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15328"}],"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=15328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15334,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15328\/revisions\/15334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}