The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has declared the March 18, governorship election in Zamfara State which returned Dauda Lawal as the elected governor, inconclusive.
In a judgment on Thursday, a 3- man panel of Justices of the appellate court unanimously voided and set aside the declaration of Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP as the lawfully elected governor.
In a lead judgment read by Justice Sybil Nwaka Gbagi, the panel ordered that fresh elections be conducted at Maradun Local Government Area of the State and in other areas where elections were either cancelled or did not hold at all.
It was the opinion of the Court that the use of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Result Viewing Portal (IReV) information to declare Lawal as governor in the absence of polling units results “were unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional.
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