Admin l Friday, May 24, 2019
ZAMFARA, Nigeria – The Supreme Court today ruled that candidate of the All Progressive Congress(APC) in the 2019 governorship election was not validly elected during the party primaries.
In a unanimous judgment delivered by a five-man panel led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, the Supreme court declared Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) that came second in the 2019 general election as winner.
Justice Paul Galinje, who read the lead judgment upheld the decision 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 candidate for any of the elections in the state and that the votes recorded by the APC during the election was nothing but a total waste.
In the result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after the election, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Mukhtar Shehu secured a total of 534, 541 votes while PDP’s candidate, Dr. Bello Mohammad, who polled 189,452
Bello Mohammad will now be sworn in come May 29, 2019. Among the losers of this Supreme Court verdict was the outgoing governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, who was also elected as a Senator. All other candidates that emerged from the voided APC primaries are also affected.