The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has declared the Zamfara State gubernatorial election inconclusive.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Dauda Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the March 18 election in Zamfara State.
The All Progressives Congress candidate, Bello Matawalle, had challenged the outcome of the governorship election at the tribunal but his petition was dismissed for lacking in merit.
In a unanimous decision, the three-member panel led by Justice Oyebisi Folayemi, on Thursday nullified the return of Governor Dauda Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the governorship poll.
Justice Sybil Nwaka who read the lead judgement ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a fresh election in three Local Government Areas of the state, where elections had not been held previously or where results from various polling units were not counted.
The affected LGAs are Maradun, Birnin-Magaji and Bukkuyum.
The court held that it was wrong for INEC to rely on information it obtained from its INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal, to collate the final result of the governorship election.
