Ten political parties in Zamfara State have dissociated themselves from a court action challenging the election of Governor Bello Matawalle said to have been instituted on their behalf by the All Peoples Party. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the governorship candidate of APP in the election, Alhaji Zayyanu Haske, had filed a case at the Zamfara Governorship Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja. Haske is asking for the nullification of the election that returned Matawalle as governor. The APP candidate, who claimed to be supported by other political parties in the state, also asked the tribunal to order for a fresh governorship election in the state. Other political parties that signed the document dissociating their groups from challenging Matawalle included PRP, SDP, ID, HD, ASD, MMN, NAC, KOWA and FRESH.

Source: Punch June 14, 2019 19:52 UTC