Court restores Gusau as Zamfara deputy governor weeks after supposed end of tenure

for continuing the impeachment process, paving the way for the state’s Chief Judge to set up a panel to investigate the deputy governor.The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mr Matawalle, with members of the National Assembly from the state and members of the state House of Assembly, had all defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress on 29 June 2021.

The plaintiffs had sued the Independent National Electoral Commission , APC, President of the Senate, House of Representatives Speaker and House of Assembly Speaker as 1st to 5th defendants, respectively. They also sought an order for INEC to issue certificates of return to each of the said candidates to hold and occupy the offices purportedly occupied by members of the APC “in defiance of the decision of the Supreme Court in SC. 377/2019: APC v. Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa and others for the unspent electoral term of office of May 29, 2019, to May 28, 2013.”

The court gave the order following an ex parte application brought by the PDP’s lawyer, Ogwu Onoja, in which he argued that the House of Assembly, Mr Matawalle and others were planning to remove Mr Gusau from office for refusing to defect to APC.

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