{"id":14248,"date":"2015-12-15T14:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T12:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=14248"},"modified":"2015-12-15T14:36:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T12:36:31","slug":"fam-appeals-committee-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/12\/15\/fam-appeals-committee-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Fam Appeals Committee resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football Association of Malawi\u2019s (Fam) Appeals Committee, headed by\u00a0Justice Lovemore Chikopa, has resigned, a few days after the\u00a0association held its elections in Mangochi on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The committee was at the centre of the controversy that saw some\u00a0candidates lodge a complaint to have the elections put on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Electoral candidates for presidency Willie Yabwanya and Wilkins Mijiga and vice-presidency Tiya Somba sought a civil courts intervention to halt the poll following differences on voter roll with FAM administration.<\/p>\n<p>An appeal by FAM at the \u00a0High Court in Blantyre saw the court overturn the trio&#8217;s injunction and \u00a0the voter went ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football Association of Malawi\u2019s (Fam) Appeals Committee, headed by\u00a0Justice Lovemore Chikopa, has resigned, a few days after the\u00a0association held its elections in Mangochi on Saturday. The committee was at the centre of the controversy that saw some\u00a0candidates lodge a complaint to have the elections put on hold. Electoral candidates for presidency Willie Yabwanya and Wilkins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}