Tag: Zamfara

  • APC NWC holds emergency meeting over Zamfara

    APC NWC holds emergency meeting over Zamfara

    Following Friday’s Supreme Court judgement which invalidated the election of all candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC in Zamfara state, the National Working Committee of the party is currently locked in an emergency closed door meeting to discuss the way forward. Starnews learnt that meeting is to deliberate on whether to sanction those…

  • INEC Releases Statement On Supreme Court Judgment On Zamfara Election

    INEC Releases Statement On Supreme Court Judgment On Zamfara Election

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will announce its decision on Zamfara elective positions on Monday.  Reacting to the supreme court ruling which sacked all candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the general election, Festus Okoye, INEC director of voter education and publicity, said the commission will meet on Saturday after…

  • Shehu Sani Releases Fresh Revelations, Explains Why APC Lost Zamfara

    Shehu Sani Releases Fresh Revelations, Explains Why APC Lost Zamfara

    Shehu Sani, lawmaker representing Kaduna Central at the Senate has given reasons the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) lost the state. The Supreme Court on Friday nullified the candidature of all APC candidates in the state, describing their votes as a wasted one. The apex court also validated the position of the Court of Appeal…

  • Just In: Supreme court verdict sparks jubilation in Zamfara

    Just In: Supreme court verdict sparks jubilation in Zamfara

    The supreme court verdict nullifying APC’s votes for 2019 elections in Zamfara state has sparked jubilation in Gusau the state capital, Daily Trust has learnt.  The motorbike riding jubilants were roaming the street of Gusau, hailing the court verdict, while holding the posters of the candidate of the governorship candidates of peoples Democratic Party (…

  • Supreme Court nullifies APC’s candidates’ elections, declares PDP winner of Zamfara polls

    Supreme Court nullifies APC’s candidates’ elections, declares PDP winner of Zamfara polls

    The Supreme Court on Friday nullified the elections of all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress Zamfara State in the 2019 general elections. Delivering a unanimous judgment of the five-man panel led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, the apex court declared the first runners-up in the 2019 general elections…

  • 2019: INEC Restore Uzodimma’s Name In Imo, Shut Out Zamfara As Amosun Loses Out

    2019: INEC Restore Uzodimma’s Name In Imo, Shut Out Zamfara As Amosun Loses Out

    —Anxiety  calmed in Rivers The internal crises that bedeviled the All Progressives Congress, APC primaries brought ill-wind for the party yesterday when the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC finally excluded it from governorship election in Zamfara State. Party activists in Ogun State were also in shock yesterday after INEC published Dapo Abiodun as the APC’s…

  • 2019: APC Won’t Be Allowed To Field Candidates In Zamfara, INEC Insists

    2019: APC Won’t Be Allowed To Field Candidates In Zamfara, INEC Insists

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it stands by its statement that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not field candidates for the 2019 general elections in Zamfara. INEC Chairman, Mahmoud Yakubu, stated this on the sideline of the opening of a two-day validation workshop titled “Study on the cost of elections in ECOWAS…

  • I’m Under Pressure To Leave APC–Yari

    I’m Under Pressure To Leave APC–Yari

    Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, on Friday said that he has been under intense pressure to defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC) with his supporters. Yari, who is the Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) spoke with State House correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja. He also handed…

  • Zamfara: Oshiomhole Attacks INEC, Says APC Will Present Candidates

    Zamfara: Oshiomhole Attacks INEC, Says APC Will Present Candidates

    The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is in haste to conclude that his party will not field candidates for 2019 general elections in Zamfara State. Oshiomhole, in a letter addressed to INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission ought to…