- APC has said that it would challenge some elective positions in Zamfara state
- The party had won all elective positions in the state during the 2019 general elections until the Supreme Court ruled against it
- Lawali Liman, the APC's chairman in the state, noted that the party was looking into the matter with a view to seeking redress
The Zamfara chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it would challenge some elective positions presently being occupied by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
Legit.ng reports that the state chairman of the party, Alhaji Lawali Liman, disclosed this at a press briefing held at the party’s state secretariat in Gusau, on Wednesday, June 26.
It was gathered that all elective positions from the 2019 general elections in the state were earlier declared for the APC until a Supreme Court ruling nullified it.
NAN reported that the court ruled over irregularities from the party’s primaries ahead of the general elections and declared the parties with the second highest votes in the elections as winners.
He said: “We held a meeting recently with the party’s national chairman in Abuja who informed me that our party has a window to challenge the action of the INEC following the Supreme Court ruling that nullified our election in the state.
“Since the matter taken to the court revolved around irregularities of primaries, we had 13 candidates for the state House of Assembly, three for the Senate and two for the House of Representatives.
"These were those who contested unopposed and the primaries did not affect them. INEC was too hasty to declare the party with the second highest votes because the exact directive of the Supreme Court was that the next party with the ‘requisite spread should be declared and by these, our issues were not taken into consideration."
Liman, however, said that the APC was looking into the matter with a view to seeking redress.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that a five-member panel of justices, in the Supreme Court on Friday, May 24, nullified all votes cast for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 elections in Zamfara state.
It was reported that in the court's ruling, given by Justice Paul Adamu Galinji, the panel said that the APC in the state did not carry out primaries according to the party regulations. NAN
