The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Zamfara, Bello Matawalle as the governor-elect of Zamfara State. INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu who announced this during a press conference in Abuja on Saturday, said the opposition PDP party won in all elective positions in the state.
Yakubu’s declaration came after Supreme Court Friday nullified the elections of all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara in the 2019 general elections. The five-man panel led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad declared the first runners-up in the 2019 general elections in the state as the winners of all the posts earlier declared to have been won by the APC and its candidates. The PDP Governorship candidate Matawalle polled 189,452 to emerge second in the governorship election.
The apex court, in its verdict, upheld the judgment of the Sokoto Division of the Court of Appeal to the effect that the APC did not conduct any valid primary election and as such had no candidates for any of the elections in the state.
The court said the votes polled by the APC candidates in the elections as wasted, adding that the party and the candidates with the second highest votes and the spread in the various elections were the valid winners. With the judgment, the APC lost the governorship, national and state Assemblies elections conducted in Zamfara State to the opposition PDP.
Two factions of the party, led by Senator Kabiru Marafa and Governor Abdulaziz Yari, respectively, had locked horns in a supremacy battle over who controls the soul of the party in the state. Their irreconcilable differences denied the party valid primary elections for sponsorship of candidates, as required by law.
According to the INEC chairman, “Governor and Deputy Governor-elect, Senators-elect and Members of the House of Representatives-elect will receive their certificates on Monday 27th May 2019 at the Commission’s Electoral Institute at 2.00pm.
“While Members of the State House of Assembly-elect will receive their certificates from the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Zamfara State at the INEC State Office in Gusau on Friday 31st May 2019 at 10.00am.
Adding that “following the judgment of the Supreme Court, the Commission has met in two emergency sessions and taken briefings from our lawyers and staff on the implementation of the Supreme Court judgment.”
“This means that we had to first discount the votes cast for the APC at the elections and then carefully rework the spread by Local Government Areas based on the new valid votes.
In compliance with the Supreme Court judgment, the Commission has now determined the winners of the elections in Zamfara State as follows:
Governorship S/N POSITION NAME OF ELECTED CANDIDATE GENDER PARTY
1. GOVERNOR BELLO MOHAMMED MATAWALLE, MALE, PDP
2. DEPUTY GOVERNOR MAHDI ALIYU GUSAU,MALE, PDP.
Senatorial S/N NAME OF SENATORIAL DISTRICT NAME OF ELECTED CANDIDATE GENDER PARTY
1 ZAMFARA NORTH ALHAJI YA’U SAHABI MALE PDP
2 ZAMFARA CENTRAL MOHAMMED HASSAN MALE PDP
3 ZAMFARA WEST LAWALI HASSAN ANKA MALE PDP
House of Representatives S/N NAME OF FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY NAME OF ELECTED CANDIDATE GENDER PARTY
1 KAURAN NAMODA/BIRNIN MAGAJI UMAR SANI DAN-GALADIMA MALE PDP
2 SHINKAFI/ZURMI BELLO HASSAN SHINKAFI MALE PDP
3 GUSAU/TSAFE KABIRU AMADU MALE PDP
4 BUNGUDU/MARU SHEHU AHMED MALE PDP
5 ANKA/TALATA MAFARA KABIRU YAHAYA MALE PDP
6 BAKURA/MARADUN AHMED MUHAMMAD BAKURA MALE PDP
7 GUMMI/BUKKUYUM SULAIMAN ABUBAKAR GUMI MALE PDP
State House of Assembly S/N NAME OF STATE CONSTITUENCY NAME OF ELECTED CANDIDATE GENDER PARTY
1 KAURA NAMODA NORTH ZAHARADEEN M. SADA MALE PDP
2 KAURA NAMODA SOUTH ANAS SARKIN FADA MALE PDP
3 BIRNIN MAGAJI NURA DAHIRU MALE PDP 4 ZURMI EAST SALIHU USMAN ZURMI MALE PDP
5 ZURMI WEST NASIRU MU’AZU MALE PDP
6 SHINKAFI MUHAMMAD G. AHMAD MALE PDP
7 TSAFE EAST MUSA BAWA MUSA MALE PDP
8 TSAFE WEST ALIYU NA-MAIGORA MALE PDP
9 GUSAU EAST IBRAHIM NAIDA MALE PDP
10 GUSAU WEST SHAFI’U DAMA MALE PDP
11 BUNGUDU EAST KABIRU MAGAJI MALE PDP
12 BUNGUDU WEST NASIRU BELLO LAWAL MALE PDP
13 MARU NORTH YUSUF ALHASSAN MUHAMMAD MALE PDP
14 MARU SOUTH KABIRU HASHIMU MALE NRM
15 ANKA YUSUF MUHAMMAD MALE PDP
16 TALATA MAFARA NORTH SHAMSUDEEN HASSAN MALE PDP
17 TALATA MAFARA SOUTH AMINU YUSUF JANGEBE MALE PDP
18 BAKURA TUKUR JEKADA BIRNIN TUDU MALE PDP
19 MARADUN I FARUK MUSA DOSARA MALE PDP
20 MARADUN II NASIRU ATIKU MALE PDP
21 GUMMI I ABDULNASIR IBRAHIM MALE PDP
22 GUMMI II MANSUR MOHAMMED MALE PDP
23 BUKKUYUM NORTH IBRAHIM MOHAMMED NA’IDDA MALE PDP
24 BUKKUYUM SOUTH SANI DAHIRU MALE PDP.
