Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State appears to be the architect of its own fate when it failed to substantially comply with the timetable of the Independent National Electoral Commission for the 2019 general election, leading the Supreme Court to upturn its victory in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party
The Chairman of INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, told journalists in Abuja, that the governor-elect, deputy-governor-elect and National Assembly members-elect would receive their certificates of return today . “This means that we had to first discount the votes cast for the APC in the elections and then carefully rework the spread by local government areas based on the new valid votes. In compliance with the Supreme Court judgment, the commission has now determined the winners of the elections in Zamfara State.”
Resigning to fate, Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, said his administration and the good loyal APC members in the state have accepted the verdict of the Supreme Court. The Governor said the party members and its supporters in the state have done everything possible to ensure APC did not lose Zamfara State, but as Allah wanted, the party lost the state.
With the Supreme Court ruling on Zamfara, the ongoing race to fill principal offices in the National Assembly has been redefined. In the senate, for instance, senators-elect on the platform of the APC are 62, PDP has 44 while Young Progressive Party has one with two outstanding from Imo State.
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