The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the election of Malam Abdulazeez Yari of All Progressives Congress as governor of Zamfara.
Delivering the judgment, the Justice John Okoro-led panel of six justices held that the petition lacked substance.
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has won all the Chairmanship positions in Saturday’s local council election in the state.
The Chairman of the Zamfara State Independent Electoral Commission (ZSIEC), Alhaji Garba Muhammad said on Sunday in Gusau that all the candidates of the party in the 14 councils had met all the provisions of the electoral law and had been declared winners of the election in their respective councils.
A High Court in Katsina State has sentenced a man, Nasiru Gusau (alias Nasiru Succer) to 29 years imprisonment for diverting seven trucks or 4, 200 bags of fertilizer in Yola, Adamawa State.
Mr. Gusau, a staff of the federal ministry of finance Gusau, Zamfara State was sentenced on a 9-count charge bordering on forgery and criminal breach of trust preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The Zamfara Police Command has arrested the Governorship Candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance(APGA), Dr Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi over alleged snatching of ballot boxes at Shadengara 004 polling unit in Shinkafi Local Government Area of the state.
Confirming the arrest, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Femi Ogunbayode said that the APGA Candidate, who is also the National Secretary of APGA, personally supervised some thugs to hijack the ballot boxes from INEC presiding officers with the aim of manipulating the election results in his favour.
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