INEC declares PDP Winner of Zamfara election

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as the winners of the governorship, House of Assembly, Senatotial and House of representatives election held in Zamfara state.

INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, made the announcement during a press conference in Abuja on Saturday. He said this followed the supreme court decision sacking all candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the general election.

The Supreme Court on Friday declared that the APC had no candidates in the 2019 general elections in Zamfara state. The five-member panel of justices, in a unanimous judgment on Friday, held that the party in the state failed to conduct primaries in accordance with the party rules.

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In the lead judgment by Justice Paul Adamu Galinji, the apex court held that all votes cast for the APC as “wasted votes” and declared that all political parties with the second highest votes in the elections and the required spread, are elected to the various elections.

Read: Supreme Court nullifies APC’s votes in Zamfara

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