BREAKING: Tension As Supreme Court Sacks Governor-elect, Other APC Candidates In Zamfara

The Supreme Court has sacked all the elected candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC  in Zamfara state during the 2019 elections. 

Their disqualification follows the unanimous judgement on Friday by the Five-member of panel of justices.

They held that the party in the state failed to conduct primaries in accordance with the party rules.

In the lead judgment by Justice Paul Adamu Galinji, the apex court held that all votes cast for the APC as “wasted votes” and declared that all political parties with the second highest votes in the elections and the required spread, are elected to the various elections. 

APC had won the gubernatorial as well as the national and state assembly seats in Zamfara State. 

The Court of Appeal stated that their party did not conduct valid primaries. 

The Supreme Court ruling on Friday will favor the major opposition in the state, PDP who scored the second highest valid votes in the general elections to form the next government. 

Idris got 534,541 while his closest opponent, Dr. Bello Muhammad Mutawalle of the PDP polled 189,452. 

Those to be affected include the Governor-elect, Mukhtar Shehu Idris; Senators Abdulazeez Yari (Zamfara West); Aliyu Ikra Bilbis (Zamfara Central); Kaura Tijjani Yahaya (Zamfara North); seven elected members of the House of Representatives and 24 House of Assembly members.