Tribunal strikes out petition against Zamfara’s Gov Matawalle

A petition challenging the election of Governor Bello Matawalle has been dismissed by the Zamfara State Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja.

The tribunal on Monday struck out the petition filed by Muhammed Sani Takori of Advanced People’s Democratic Alliance (APDA), which also joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as respondents.

The petition filed by Takori and APDA prayed the tribunal to nullify the emergence of Matawalle as governor, alleging that he did not score two-thirds of the votes cast in the local government areas of the state as required by law.

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The petitioners also declared that substantial votes cast on the election day as waste.

In its ruling, the tribunal headed by Justice Binta Fatima Zubair held that the petition was un-meritorious in view of the Supreme Court pronouncement of May 24, 2019.

Justice Zubair also held that by implication, the votes cast for Governor Matawalle and his party, the PDP, were the lawful votes as far as the March 9, governorship election in Zamfara State was concerned.

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