The Supreme Court has nullified the election of all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Zamfara State in the 2019 general elections.
In a unanimous judgment of the five-man panel led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, on Friday, the apex court declared those who came second in the 2019 general elections in the state as the winners of all the posts earlier declared to have been won by the APC and its candidates.
Justice Paul Galinje, who delivered the lead judgment upheld the earlier decision of the Sokoto Division of the Court of Appeal disqualifying APC candidates on the grounds that the party did not conduct any valid primary election and as such had no candidate for any of the elections in the state.
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He further described the votes garnered by the APC candidates in the elections as wasted, adding that the party and the candidates with the second highest votes and the spread in the various elections were the valid winners.
Affected by the judgement are the governorship, state House of Assembly and the National Assembly elections conducted in Zamfara State on February 23 and March 11, 2019.
APC candidates, including the outgoing governor of the State, Abdulaziz Yari, who was elected to the Senate, had won most of the offices contested for in the 2019 elections with the PDP candidates, coming second in the polls.
