Breaking: INEC Declares PDP Winner Of Zamfara Polls As Mandated By Supreme Court

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ), Prof Yaqub has declared the Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party  ( PDP ), Mohammed Mattawale as the winner of the Zamfara State Governorship election.

INEC also declared all the candidates of the PDP winners of all the senatorial and federal constituencies seats .

Certificate of return will be issued to the Goveror-elect , senators elect  and members House of Representatives on Monday 27th May 2019 at the commission’s office in Abuja as stated by the Chairman of the Commission while members elect House of Assembly will receive the certificate from the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the state on 31st May 2019 as stated by the Chairman of the Commission, Muhamu Yakubu.

This was disclosed in Abuja at the end of the meeting of the commission to deliberated and reviewed the judgement of the supreme court which voided all the votes cast for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara.

Yakubu explained, “Therefore political parties must take seriously the conduct of the primaries according to all external  rules including the monitoring processes for INEC to avoid the repeat  of the Zamfara experience.