Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, voided the election of the Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal.
Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Lawal winner of the March 18 governorship election.
But the then incumbent Governor Bello Matawalle, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, had challenged the victory of Lawal, who was the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The Tribunal had upheld Lawal’s election, but Matawalle, who is now the Minister of State for Defence, headed to the Appeal Court.
However, on Thursday, a three-member panel of justices nullified Lawal’s victory and ordered a rerun of the election in three local government areas of the state.
The Local Government Areas where the rerun election will hold include Maradun, Birnin Magaji and Bukuyun.
