{"id":20229,"date":"2019-08-23T17:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T17:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=20229"},"modified":"2019-08-23T17:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T17:09:27","slug":"tribunal-sacks-dino-melaye-dino-says-it-is-miscarriage-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=20229","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal sacks Dino Melaye; Dino says it is miscarriage of justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Assembly\/State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lokoja has sacked Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye; but he has described his sack as a miscarriage of justice, and vowed to challenge the judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melaye&#8217;s predecessor, Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who contested against him but lost and proceeded to the tribunal, was elated at the judgment which called for a rerun.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Melaye said: &#8220;The judgement is full of importation of informations that are alien to the case.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I however commend the courage and moral strength of the chairman of the tribunal for resisting evil and standing on the part of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I have confidence in the appeal court to right the wrongs as contained in the pronouncements of the judgement.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I also want to tell those jubilating that their jubilation will be short-lived while appealing to my teeming supporters to remain calm as their mandate is safe and secured and cannot be taken through any mischievous means.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;However, our legal team is already working on appealing the judgment and I assure all that justice will prevail.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Assembly\/State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lokoja has sacked Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye; but he has described his sack as a miscarriage of justice, and vowed to challenge the judgment. Melaye&#8217;s predecessor, Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who contested against him but lost and proceeded to the tribunal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}