Tag Archives: Zamfara

Mr. Hilard Etta, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Vice Chairman South South, has described the Supreme Court’s ruling which upturned the party’s electoral victory in Zamfara State, as a sad one for it and its members. The five-member panel of the Supreme Court justices, in a unanimous judgement on Friday, declared that the APC in Zamfara had no candidates ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has commended the Supreme Court judgement which nullified the elections of all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara in the last general elections. Abubakar in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Mr Paul Ibe, commended the Supreme Court for siding with justice, saying justice had prevailed ...

Supreme Court nullifies All Progressives Congress (APC), participation, declares party with second highest votes as winner in Zamfara. The Apex court heard two election appeals seeking to ascertain authentic candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), candidates in Zamfara in the last general elections. APC and Malam Sanusi Dan-Alhaji had instituted the case on the primary election conducted by the ...

The Supreme Court will on May 24 give judgment in the appeals filed in relation to Zamfara All Progressives Party APC, crisis. A five-man panel of the court, led by Justice Ibrahim Muhammad chose the date after lawyers to parties adopted their briefs of argument in relation to the appeals. The appeals are those filed by the APC and Sanusi ...

Gov. Abdul’aziz Yari of Zamfara says election into the 14 local government areas will hold in spite of the security challenges facing the state. Yari made this known at a stakeholders’ meeting organised by the State Independent Electoral Commission (ZASIEC) on Monday in Gusau. The governor was represented by the state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Bello ...

Sen. Kabiru Marafa, representing Zamfara Central, says Gov. Abdul’azeez Yari, has offended God for insisting that the All Progressives Congress (APC) conducted party primaries in the state. Marafa, who fielded questions from State House correspondents on political developments in Zamfara state, faulted the governor for initiating legal action over the matter and ask God to forgive him (Yari) for misleading ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has suspended the issuance of Certificates of Return to winners of the last governorship and House of Assembly elections in Zamfara State. The exercise which would have taken place Wednesday was suspended following a judgment of the appellate court regarding the sponsoring of candidates by the All Progressives Congress APC in the state. ‏According to ...

The Court of Appeal Sokoto Division on Monday set aside the judgment delivered by the Zamfara High Court, allowing the All Progressives Congress (APC) to field candidates in the 2019 Election. The appeal was filed by Sen. Kabiru Marafa, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) and 129 others through his Counsel, Mr Mike Ozheokome , SAN. Respondents are ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto, led by Justice Tom Yakubu, has set aside the judgement of a Zamfara High Court on the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries that produced the party’s candidates for governorship, National and State Assembly elections. Details later…..

Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara has attributed the successes recorded by the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the Feb. 23 and March 9 general elections in the state despite the party’s crisis to “divine intervention’’. Yari disclosed this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Friday. The APC was allowed to field candidates for all the ...