Zamfara APC seeks to challenge INEC’s execution of Supreme Court ruling

The All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State has said that it
would contest some elective positions presently occupied by the
members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

The state Chairman of the party, Alhaji Lawali Liman, disclosed
this at a press briefing held at the party’s state Secretariat in
Gusau, on Wednesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that all elective positions
from the 2019 general elections in the state were earlier declared
in favour of the APC until a Supreme Court ruling nullified it.

“We held a meeting recently with the party’s National Chairman
in Abuja, who informed me that our party has a window to challenge
the action of the Independent National Electoral Commission
following the Supreme Court ruling that nullified our election in
the state.

“Since the matter taken to the court revolved around
irregularities of primaries, we had 13 candidates for the state
House of Assembly, three for the Senate and two for the House of
Representatives”

“These were those who contested unopposed and the primaries did
not affect them.

“INEC was too hasty to declare the party with the second highest
votes because the exact directive of the Supreme Court was that the
next party with the ‘requisite spread should be declared and by
these, our issues were not taken into consideration,” he said.

Liman, however, said that the APC was looking into the matter
with a view of seeking redress.

(NAN)

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