The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has
declared Bello Matawalle the candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, the governor-elect of Zamfara State.
The commission said it will present the certificate of return to
all PDP candidates on Monday.
Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, announced this during a press
conference in Abuja on Saturday.
He also said the party won in all elective positions in the
state.
He said this followed the supreme court decision sacking all
candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the general
election.
With this development, the main opposition party now wins all
the three senatorial seats, seven House of Representatives seats
and 23 out of the 24 House of Assembly seats
Yakubu noted that the commission will issue Certificates of
Returns to the governor elect, his deputy, the three senators and
seven House of Representatives members elect on Monday by 2pm in
Abuja.
TheNigerialawyer Recall that the Apex court had ruled that the
All Progressives Congress, APC, did not conduct valid primaries in
the state.
The court therefore ordered that all votes by APC in the
election were all wasted.
Matawalle had scored 189,452 to emerge second in the
governorship election.
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