Full names of PDP candidates In Zamfara to be issue certificate of retuned by INEC on 27th and 31st of May 2019

Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) has released the full names of the People Democratic Party candidate declared as the authentic winners of Zamfara State, as court sacked all elected candidate of All Progressive Congress.

Read full press Statement bellow

Update on the Press Briefing
1. First, let me welcome all of you to this Press Conference. The reason for addressing you today is to provide an update on the recent decision of the Supreme Court regarding the candidates fielded by the APC in Zamfara State for the 2019 elections

  1. It is important to provide a background to the legal process that culminated in the Supreme Court decision on 24/5/19. You may all recall that the Commission issued the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2019 general elections on 9/1/18, over one year in advance.

  2. Among other activities, the conduct of party primaries was scheduled to take place between 18thAugust and 7thOctober 2018.

  3. Unfortunately, the APC did not conduct its primaries in Zamfara State within this stipulated time and the Commission duly informed the party that it would not be in a position to present candidates for elections in the State.

  4. Subsequently, various interested parties, including the APC itself, approached the court over the decision of the Commission.

  5. Just before the election, the subsisting court judgment at the time ordered the Commission to include the APC on the ballot for the Governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly elections, which the Commission complied with.

  6. However, since the elections were completed, a Court of Appeal judgment and now a Supreme Court judgment have determined that the APC did not conduct valid primaries for the elections in question.

  7. In its judgment delivered on 24/5/19, the Supreme Court, having determined that the APC did not conduct valid primaries, said that the votes cast for the party in all the elections in question were “wasted” and ordered the Commission to recognize the runners-up as the winners.

  8. This judgment affects the positions of Governor and Deputy-Governor, three Senatorial, seven Federal and twenty-four State Assembly Constituencies.

  9. Following the judgment of the Supreme Court, the Commission has met in two emergency sessions and taken briefings from our lawyers and staff on the implementation of the Supreme Court judgment.

  10. While the legislative elections (Senatorial, House of Representatives & State House of Assembly elections) are straight forward to deal with because they entail first-past-the-post or simple majority of votes, the Governorship election is determined not just by majority votes

  11. … but also spread in accordance with Section 179 (2) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). This means that we had to first discount the votes cast for the APC at the elections and then carefully rework the spread by Local Government Areas based on the new valid votes.

  12. In compliance with the Supreme Court judgment, the Commission has now determined the winners of the elections in Zamfara State as follows:

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Governorship
1. GOVERNOR: BELLO MOHAMMED MATAWALLE, MALE, PDP
2. DEPUTY GOVERNOR:
MAHDI ALIYU GUSAU, MALE, PDP.

Senatorial
1. ZAMFARA NORTH
ALHAJI YA’U SAHABI
MALE, PDP

  1. ZAMFARA CENTRAL
    MOHAMMED HASSAN
    MALE, PDP

  2. ZAMFARA WEST
    LAWALI HASSAN ANKA
    MALE
    PDP

House of Representatives
1. KAURAN NAMODA/BIRNIN MAGAJI
UMAR SANI DAN-GALADIMA
MALE, PDP

  1. SHINKAFI/ZURMI
    BELLO HASSAN SHINKAFI
    MALE, PDP

  2. GUSAU/TSAFE
    KABIRU AMADU
    MALE, PDP

  3. BUNGUDU/MARU
    SHEHU AHMED
    MALE, PDP

  4. ANKA/TALATA MAFARA
    KABIRU YAHAYA
    MALE, PDP

  5. BAKURA/MARADUN
    AHMED MUHAMMAD BAKURA
    MALE, PDP

  6. GUMMI/BUKKUYUM
    SULAIMAN ABUBAKAR GUMI
    MALE, PDP

State House of Assembly
1. KAURA NAMODA NORTH
ZAHARADEEN M. SADA
MALE, PDP

  1. KAURA NAMODA SOUTH
    ANAS SARKIN FADA
    MALE, PDP

  2. BIRNIN MAGAJI
    NURA DAHIRU
    MALE, PDP

  3. ZURMI EAST
    SALIHU USMAN ZURMI
    MALE, PDP

  4. ZURMI WEST
    NASIRU MU’AZU
    MALE, PDP

  5. SHINKAFI
    MUHAMMAD G. AHMAD
    MALE, PDP

  6. TSAFE EAST
    MUSA BAWA MUSA
    MALE, PDP

  7. TSAFE WEST
    ALIYU NA-MAIGORA
    MALE, PDP

  8. GUSAU EAST
    IBRAHIM NAIDA
    MALE,PDP

  9. GUSAU WEST
    SHAFI’U DAMA
    MALE, PDP

  10. BUNGUDU EAST
    KABIRU MAGAJI
    MALE, PDP

  11. BUNGUDU WEST
    NASIRU BELLO LAWAL
    MALE, PDP

  12. MARU NORTH
    YUSUF ALHASSAN MUHAMMAD
    MALE, PDP

  13. MARU SOUTH
    KABIRU HASHIMU
    MALE, NRM

  14. ANKA
    YUSUF MUHAMMAD
    MALE, PDP

  15. TALATA MAFARA NORTH
    SHAMSUDEEN HASSAN
    MALE, PDP

  16. TALATA MAFARA SOUTH
    AMINU YUSUF JANGEBE
    MALE, PDP

  17. BAKURA
    TUKUR JEKADA BIRNIN TUDU
    MALE, PDP

  18. MARADUN I
    FARUK MUSA DOSARA
    MALE, PDP

  19. MARADUN II
    NASIRU ATIKU
    MALE, PDP

  20. GUMMI I
    ABDULNASIR IBRAHIM
    MALE, PDP

  21. GUMMI II
    MANSUR MOHAMMED
    MALE, PDP

  22. BUKKUYUM NORTH
    IBRAHIM MOHAMMED NA’IDDA
    MALE, PDP

  23. BUKKUYUM SOUTH
    SANI DAHIRU
    MALE, PDP

INEC will issue Certificates of Return to the new winners as follows:
i. Governor & Deputy Governor-elect, Senators-elect & Members of the House of Representatives-elect will receive their certificates on Monday 27th May 2019 @ the Commission’s Electoral Institute at 2.00pm.

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ii. Members of the State House of Assembly-elect will receive their certificates from the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Zamfara State at the INEC State Office in Gusau on Friday 31stMay 2019 at 10.00am.

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.

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.

I want therefore to remind us that the Commission has since 9thApril 2019 issued the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2019 Bayelsa and Kogi Governorship elections by which party primaries are scheduled to hold between the 2ndand 29thAugust 2019.

I appeal to political parties intending to field candidates in the elections to adhere strictly to this and other timelines in the Timetable and Schedule of activities.

I thank you very much and I will now take some questions.

Prof. Mahmood Yakubu

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