{"id":127059,"date":"2019-06-16T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T09:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127059"},"modified":"2019-06-16T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T09:52:52","slug":"were-not-against-new-zamfara-governor-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127059","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Not Against New Zamfara Governor \u2013 Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ten political parties in Zamfara have disassociated 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 (APP).<\/p>\n

The governorship candidate of APP in the election, Alhaji Zayyanu Haske, has filed a case at the Zamfara governorship election petitions tribunal sitting in Abuja.<\/p>\n

Haske is asking for the nullification of the election that returned Matawalle as governor.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the matter, leaders of 10 political parties, led by the Chairman of Alliance for Democracy (AD), Alhaji Musa Mai-mai, said that they were not a party to the case and were not consulted before it was instituted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were not consulted; we believe that the Supreme Court judgment, which gave the mandate to Matawalle, after annulling the participation of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the candidate was in order,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Briefing newsmen at the AD office in Gusau, Mai-mai said that those challenging Matawalle\u2019s seat were \u201ccarrying out a blind opposition which is not right\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are dissociating ourselves from those people and their moves; we want the whole world to know that they are on their own.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany leaders and elders from the state have extended their hands of fellowship to the new administration, including the immediate past governor, Yari. So, we believe that everyone should rally round this government to help it succeed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The AD official urged people of the state to disregard those challenging the new administration and pray for the government to succeed, especially in its fight against bandits.<\/p>\n

Other political parties that signed the document dissociating their groups from challenging Matawalle included PRP, SDP, ID, HD, ASD, MMN, NAC, KOWA and FRESH.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten political parties in Zamfara have disassociated 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 (APP). The governorship candidate of APP in the election, Alhaji Zayyanu Haske, has filed a case at the Zamfara governorship election petitions tribunal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[29,12322,58,271],"class_list":["post-127059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-bello-matawalle","tag-pdp","tag-zamfara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}