- The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Dauda Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party winner of the election
- Bello Matawalle, had challenged the outcome of the March 18 governorship election at the tribunal but his petition was dismissed for lacking in merit
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has declared the Zamfara State governorship election inconclusive.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Dauda Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party winner of the election.
The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Bello Matawalle, had challenged the outcome of the March 18 governorship election at the tribunal but his petition was dismissed for lacking in merit.
Delivering the judgment on Thursday, the Court of Appeal declared the election as inconclusive and ordered INEC to hold a fresh election in two local governments.
It ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct a fresh election in some Local Government Areas, LGAs, of the state, where elections did not hold previously or where results from various polling units were not counted.
In the lead judgement that was read by Justice Sybil Nwaka, the court held that it was wrong for INEC to rely on information it obtained from its IReV portal, to collate the final result of the governorship election.