Like it was in 2023, history is about repeating itself in Zamfara state where the Federal High Court sitting in Gusau, the state capital, ruled out the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the 2023 governorship election on the ground that it has no governorship candidate.
A similar scenario played out in 2019 when the Supreme Court ruled that the All Progressives Congress (APC) had no candidates for all elective offices, a decision that gave the PDP candidate Mohammed Bello Matawalle (incumbent governor), who placed second in the general election, the benefit of becoming the governor.
He, however, defected to the APC midway into the life of his administration.
Although there are other parties, the sack of the PDP from the race may have given yet another advantage to Matawalle in next year’s general elections, considering the fact that INEC’s window for substitution or any related decision had closed long ago.
It could not be ascertained if the PDP and its candidate would…
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