{"id":27016,"date":"2020-01-14T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=27016"},"modified":"2020-01-14T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:22:09","slug":"why-chief-justice-moved-judgment-to-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=27016","title":{"rendered":"Why Chief Justice Moved Judgment To Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=27017\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/justice-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/justice-2.jpg 678w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/justice-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, gave the order following the inability of the security operatives to control the crowd and the noise level in the court.<\/div>\n<div>Justice Muhammad had led a seven-man panel of justices hearing the appeals from the governorship elections in Imo, Bauchi, Sokoto, Kano, Plateau and Benue States.<\/div>\n<div>But the court rose some minutes after the hearing commenced due to the crowd and the noise level in the court.<\/div>\n<div>As part of efforts to decongest the court, the CJN directed counsels representing the parties not to appear with more than five lawyers.<\/div>\n<div>He, however, granted the parties in the case to witness the proceedings and until that was done, Justice Muhammad ordered that the hearing be put on hold.<\/div>\n<div>Thereafter, politicians who were not parties in any of the appeals were asked to leave the courtroom as the police deploy a dog to assist in the decongestion process.<\/div>\n<div>After carrying out the directive of the CJN to decongest the courtroom, the court resumed proceedings.<\/div>\n<div>The appeals were brought before the court by various aggrieved candidates in the March 9 polls in the affected states.<\/div>\n<div>The Apex court is hearing the appeals filed by the governorship candidates 10 months after the elections held in the affected states.<\/div>\n<div>The governors returned elected by the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the states are Emeka Ihedioha (Imo), Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto ).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, gave the order following the inability of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27018,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27016\/revisions\/27018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}