Five polling stations in the Kaura Namoda South State Assembly constituency will hold a supplemental election on August 21st, according to the Zamfara Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC.
This was disclosed at a stakeholders’ meeting in Gusau on Tuesday by Dr. Mahmmud Isah, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner.
Five polling stations in the Kyambarawa and Sakajiki registration areas, where the results of the August 16 by-election were canceled due to purported irregularities, would host the supplementary election, according to Isah. He stated that three polling places in Kyambarawa ward would host the supplemental poll.
The exercise will be held in Shiyar Magaji (Kofar Hamza) 002, Tukasu (Sabuwar Kasuwa) 009, and Kofar Fafa (Shiyar Fada), according to the Resident Electoral Commissioner.
According to him, the poll would be held equally in Sakajiki ward’s two impacted polling places, Alko (Shiyar Kudu) 002 and Shiyar Nufawa (Kofar MD Nuhu) 007.
After the results from the five polling places were canceled, INEC ruled the by-election inconclusive on August 16. According to Prof. Lawal Sa’adu of the Federal University in Gusau, who serves as the INEC Returning Officer, the commission has registered 5,446 voters in the two regions and gathered 3,265 PVCs.
According to the results that were made public following the cancelation, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) received 5,339 votes, while the All Progressives Congress (APC) received 7,001. Sa’adu said that the 1,662 gap between the two main political parties, the APC and the PDP, was smaller than the 3,265 PVCs that were gathered at the impacted voting places.
In order to declare the election inconclusive, the electoral umpire referred to Sections 24 subsections 2 and 3, 47 subsection 3, and 51 subsection 2 of the Electoral Act 2022.
