{"id":2524,"date":"2014-10-08T13:04:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2014-10-08T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:04:54","slug":"court-sacks-fintiri-as-acting-governor-swears-in-ngilari-and-halts-october-11-bye-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2524","title":{"rendered":"Court Sacks Fintiri As Acting Governor, Swears in Ngilari and Halts October 11 Bye-Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2526\" alt=\"fin\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fin.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The Chief Judge of Adamawa has been ordered by a Federal High Court to immediately swear-in Mr. Bala Ngilari as governor of the state. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>In the court&#8217;s ruling, it said the Adamawa State Deputy Governor Ngilari didn&#8217;t resign his position before ex-governor Murtala Nyako was impeached.<\/p>\n<p>The court has declared acting governor Umaru Fintiri&#8217;s swearing-in as illegal and unconstitutional and ordered his immediate evacuation from the Government House.<\/p>\n<p>The court also ruled that the INEC shouldn&#8217;t conduct the bye-election slated for October 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Judge of Adamawa has been ordered by a Federal High Court to immediately swear-in Mr. Bala Ngilari as governor of the state. In the court&#8217;s ruling, it said the Adamawa State Deputy Governor Ngilari didn&#8217;t resign his position before ex-governor Murtala Nyako was impeached. The court has declared acting governor Umaru Fintiri&#8217;s swearing-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/fin.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-EI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2527,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}