{"id":56592,"date":"2023-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/?guid=686777ad6eba48360eb9639dbd2bc6ae"},"modified":"2023-09-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T00:00:00","slug":"tribunal-sacks-jerry-ganas-son-from-house-of-reps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/tribunal-sacks-jerry-ganas-son-from-house-of-reps\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal sacks Jerry Gana\u2019s son from House of Reps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><br \/>\nThe National and State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal, on Monday, sacked the son of Prof. Jerry Gana, Rep Joshua Audu-Gana, from the House of Representatives.<br \/>\n<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Rep Joshua Audu-Gana was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Edati\/Lavun\/Mokwa Federal Constituency of Niger State in the Feb. 25 general elections.<br \/>\n<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nGana, who won the election with 47,942 votes as against 40,003 votes scored by the candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Abdullahi Usman Gbatamagi, was declared the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<br \/>\n<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nDissatisfied with the declaration, the APC and its candidate, Gbatamagi, through their Counsel, Johnson Usman, SAN, challenged the return of Gana.<br \/>\n<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe petition is via a petition number: EPT\/NG\/HR\/06\/2023 on the ground that the election was invalid by reason of non-compliance with the Electoral Act, 2022 in that the margin of win was less than the permanent voter cards (PVCs) collected in the polling units where elections did not hold or were cancelled.<br \/>\n<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nDelivering the judgment on Monday, the three-member tribunal headed by Justice Sylvester Godspower agreed with Mr Usman\u2019s arguments.<br \/>\n<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe tribunal proceeded to invalidate votes in the 26 polling units of the constituency, thereby reducing the votes of Gana to 46,494 votes while that of Gbatamagi now stood at 39,159 votes, leaving the PVCs collected in the affected polling units at 14,411.<br \/>\n<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe tribunal consequently set aside the Certificate of Return issued to Joshua Gana by INEC and ordered the commission to conduct a supplementary election in the 26 polling units within 90 days of the judgment with a view to determining the winner of the election.<br \/>\n<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nSource: News Agency of Nigeria<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National and State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal, on Monday, sacked the son of Prof. Jerry Gana, Rep Joshua Audu-Gana, from the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Rep Joshua Audu-Gana was the candidate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tribunal sacks Jerry Gana\u2019s son from House of Reps - South Africa Voice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/tribunal-sacks-jerry-ganas-son-from-house-of-reps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tribunal sacks Jerry Gana\u2019s son from House of Reps - South Africa Voice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National and State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal, on Monday, sacked the son of Prof. Jerry Gana, Rep Joshua Audu-Gana, from the House of Representatives.  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