{"id":249504,"date":"2010-01-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079894.post-6479680321348843538"},"modified":"2010-01-29T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:59:00","slug":"nigeria-court-rules-president-not-required-to-transfer-power-to-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/249504","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria court rules president not required to transfer power to VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] A Nigerian court ruled Friday that ailing President Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua is not required to formally transfer his powers to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan or any other interim leader. The Federal High Court in Abuja rejected a lawsuit brought by the Nigerian Bar Association, seeking to have presidential powers temporary endowed in Jonathan pursuant to Article 145 of Nigeria&#8217;s Constitution. Last week, the court ordered Nigeria&#8217;s cabinet to pass a resolution within 14 days on whether Yar&#8217;Adua is capable of running the country. Earlier this month, a judge for Nigeria&#8217;s Federal High Court ordered Jonathan to assume executive powers in Yar&#8217;Adua&#8217;s absence. Yar&#8217;Adua has been receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia since late November<br \/>\nIn 2008, the Nigerian Supreme Court upheld the results of disputed 2007 election that brought Yar&#8217;Adua to power, despite opposition groups&#8217; allegations of fraud. Yar&#8217;Adua had promised to step down if the court invalidated the election. A tribunal formed before the 2007 election to deal with allegations of fraud ruled that the opposition groups lacked enough evidence of fraud to have the results overturned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] A Nigerian court ruled Friday that ailing President Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua is not required to formally transfer his powers to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan or any other interim leader. The Federal High Court in Abuja rejected a lawsuit brought by the Nigerian Bar Association, seeking to have presidential powers temporary endowed in Jonathan pursuant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}