{"id":3961,"date":"2020-05-08T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T10:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maadhouze.com\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2020-05-08T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T10:11:20","slug":"judge-who-annuls-mko-abiolas-june-12-election-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=3961","title":{"rendered":"Judge Who Annuls MKO Abiola&#8217;s June 12 Election Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The judge, who annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Dahiru Saleh, has died in his home town, Azare of Bauchi, Thursday evening<\/p>\n<p>Cable.ng reports that until his death, he held the traditional title of \u2018Mutawallen\u2019 Katagum Emirate in Bauchi.<\/p>\n<p>He was the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Chief MKO Abiola, who was recognised as an elected President posthumously by President Muhammadu Buhari, was leading Bashir Tofa, his National Republican Convention rival by wide margin before Saleh\u2019s ruling that cancelled the final announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Abiola was later incarcerated and died in detention on July 7, 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judge, who annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Dahiru Saleh, has died in his home town, Azare of Bauchi, Thursday evening Cable.ng reports that until his death, he held the traditional title of \u2018Mutawallen\u2019 Katagum Emirate in Bauchi. He was the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court. Chief MKO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2629,18,822,868],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dahiru-saleh","tag-election","tag-june-12","tag-mko-abiola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961"}],"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=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}