The All Progressives Congress
(APC) is not on the result sheets of the ongoing governorship and house of
assembly elections in Zamfara state.
The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) attributed the development to the court rulings on
the internal crisis in Zamfara APC.
INEC had excluded the party from
the 2019 elections as a result of the controversies which trailed the primary
elections.
But last month, a Zamfara high
court ruled that the party could field candidates in the elections.
In a statement, Rose Oriaran-Anthony,
national secretary of the commission, said the party was omitted from result
sheets because of the “suddenness of the court order”.
“The commission has just
discovered that because of the suddenness of the court order, the party (APC)
was omitted for the governorship result sheets. “This omission is deeply
regretted,” the statement read.
“As a solution, the commission
has decided to manually create columns in each of the Result Sheets after the
last printed party, ZLP, and insert the APC.
“This does not affect any other
information on the Results Sheet.”
Commenting on INEC’s readiness
for the polls, Asmau Maikudi, resident electoral commissioner (REC) in the
state, said the commission had completed all arrangements for an early start.
She said all elections materials
which were distributed to all the 14 local government areas of the state under
the supervision of party agents and other stakeholders had reached their
destinations without any hitch.
Maikudi said the cooperation of
the stakeholders in the state, especially security agencies, politicians and
the media, was commendable.
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