{"id":1241,"date":"2021-09-13T03:24:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T03:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2021-09-13T03:24:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T03:24:17","slug":"fiji-sodelpa-member-niko-nawaikula-sues-elections-supervisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Fiji: SODELPA member  Niko Nawaikula sues Elections Supervisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1242\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1242\" class=\"wp-image-1242 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Niko-2021-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Niko-2021-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Niko-2021-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Niko-2021-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Niko-2021-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Niko-2021.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:FBC NEWS<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fijian news media outlet\u00a0 FBC NEWS reports Social Democratic Liberal Party Member Niko Nawaikula has filed a civil claim against Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nawaikula claims Saneem\u2019s decision to remove Nawaikula\u2019s name from the Electoral National Register of Voters was wrong and unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>It also reported that as a result of Saneem\u2019s actions, Nawaikula\u2019s seat in parliament was declared vacant.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaikula claims that the Supervisor of Elections wrongfully exercised his powers and functions as a public officer.<\/p>\n<p>He further claims that since Saneem was exercising his powers and functions as a public officer, the Attorney-General is also a party to the civil action in accordance with the State Proceedings Act.<\/p>\n<p>The proceeding now instituted by Niko Nawaikula is usually used specifically against public officers.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaikula\u2019s legal counsel says other public officers may be sued for wrongful and negligent exercise of powers and functions through the same proceeding his client has instituted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>FBC NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fijian news media outlet\u00a0 FBC NEWS reports Social Democratic Liberal Party Member Niko Nawaikula has filed a civil claim against Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem. Nawaikula claims Saneem\u2019s decision to remove Nawaikula\u2019s name from the Electoral National Register of Voters was wrong and unlawful. It also reported that as a result of Saneem\u2019s actions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,222,177],"tags":[59,218,246,127],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-featured","tag-fiji","tag-pacific","tag-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}