The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Bello Matawalle of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) winner of Zamfara state governorship election.
Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman,
announced this during a press conference in Abuja on Saturday.
He also said the party won all
but one of the elective positions in the state. Kabiru Hassan of the National
Rescue Movement (NRM) won the election in Maru south state constituency.
Yakubu said this followed the
supreme court decision sacking all candidates of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) in the state election.
The apex court had ruled that the
party did not hold a valid primary election and subsequently voided its votes.
Matawalle had scored 189,452 to
emerge second in the governorship election.
There are 36 elective positions
in the state including three senatorial districts and seven house of
representatives seats.
The INEC chairman said the
governor, deputy governor-elect as well as incoming federal lawmakers will
receive their certificates of return on Monday in Abuja while the state house
of assembly-elect members will get theirs in Zamfara on Friday.
“I wish to seize this opportunity
to draw the attention of all stakeholders, but particularly the political
parties, to the implications of the supreme court judgment on the Zamfara
matter,” he said.
“It is clear that properly
conducted party primaries are cardinal to the proper internal functioning of
political parties, the electoral process and our democratic system at large.
“Therefore, political parties
must take very seriously the conduct of primaries according to all extant
rules, including the monitoring of the processes by INEC to avoid a repeat of
the Zamfara experience.”
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Way to go INEC.. this is a big lesson to APC
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