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DUAL CITIZENSHIP: COMR. KAURA DRAGS DAUDA LAWAL, INEC AND PDP TO COURT

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The Special Adviser on Zamfara Urban and Regional Planning Board Comr. Anas Abdullahi Kaura has dragged Dr. Dauda Lawal the PDP gubernatorial candidate for Zamfara state, the party, and Independent National Electoral Commission to the Federal High Court Gusau division demanding for clarification on whether by virtue of sections 2(2), 3(2) and 177 of the 1999 constitution as amended a citizen of Nigeria can enjoy dual citizenship.

Their brief came as a result of discrepancies detected from the credentials submitted to the INEC by Dr. Dauda Lawal the PDP gubernatorial candidate which show that he was born in both Guga village of Katsina and Gusau the Zamfara state capital respectively.

In the certificate of primary school presented by Dr. Dauda Lawal, it show that he was born in Guga a town located in the present day Katsina while in the declaration of age he made on the 12th of September 2018 he claimed that he was born in Gusau the capital city of Zamfara state.

Anas Kaura through his lawyer Barr. P.M. Lasco is asking for the court to determine whether by sections 2(2), 3(2) and 177 of the 1999 constitution as amended a citizen of Nigeria can enjoy dual citizenship.

He also prayed for the court to determine whether by the combined effect of the provisions of Sections 2(2), 3(2) and 177 of the 1999 constitution as amended and giving the circumstances of the state of origin of the 1st Defendant, he can be cleared by the 2nd and 3rd defendant to contest for the office of the Governor of the state.

Barr. P.M. Lasco who filed the case by way of originating summon on Monday the 8th of November 2022 is awaiting a date to be fixed for all parties to enter appearances for the matter to be determined on its merit.

Dr. Dauda Lawal Dare earlier on Tuesday got his victory as PDP gubernatorial candidate quashed when Justice Aminu Bappa led Federal High Court Gusau announced the prohibition of the PDP to fill in Governorship candidate in the 2023 general election.

The Tuesday judgment is the second of the same federal high court it invalidated the first primary election conducted by the party on the 25th of April 2022 on the ground that it was not conducted not in substantial compliance with the law.

 

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FMR. ZAMFARA SPEAKER SCORES (229) TO DELIVERS POLING

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Former Speaker of Zamfara House of Assembly Sanusi Garba Rikiji of the APC has scored a total of (229) votes to defeat the PDP who polls (61) votes only.

His poling unit is Rumfar Galadima (013) in Gusau the capital city of Zamfara State.

As for the result of the state house of assembly in his poling units, APC scored a total of (232) to defeat the PDP who polls (51) votes.

Rikiji is currently the house of reps candidate for Gusau and Tsafe in the 2023 election, whose election was declared inclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He is contesting the seat together with the serving members Kabiru Amadu Mai Palace, who is from the opposition PDP.

 

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CHAIR ZBIRS, WORKS COMMISSIONER, DELIVERS POLING UNITS

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The Chairman of Zamfara State Board of Internal Revenue Service, Ali Akilu Dama Bungudu has also delivered his poling unit.

His party the APC scored a total (173) to defeat the PDP who scored (111) votes.

Similar votes were also recorded for both political parties at the level of State assembly elections.

Similarly, Zamfara State Commissioner for Works Rabiu Garba Gusau has delivered his poling units with a wide margin to defeat the PDP.

APC scored (96) votes to defeat the opposition People’s Democratic Party, which scored (16) votes for both the Governorship election and state assembly for Gusau (1) at his poling unit.

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SHA’AYAU S. PAWA MAFARA SCORES (502) VOTES TO DEFEAT PDP WITH ZERO VOTE.

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A political ally of former Governor Yari Sha’ayau Yusuf S. Paws has defeated PDP in his Township Primary school poling unit in Talatar Marafa local government area of Zamfara State.

According to an official result sheet, the politician who is a member of All Progressives Congress (APC) scored (502) votes to defeat the PDP who scored (0) votes.

The politician has made history since 2015 by maintaining the only poling units which opposition party has never won a single vote during election.

He repeated the same history during the 2023 Presidential and national assembly elections conducted three weeks back, when PDP failed to score a single vote.

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