The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate Dauda Lawal has unseated Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle, in what is been described as the biggest upset of the general elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Lawal the governor-elect with a total of 377,726 votes, after he defeated Matawalle of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 311,976.
He was announced as the winner in Gusau, the state capital in the early hours of Tuesday.
Zamfara State has been an ANPP state and then an APC state following the merger in 2014.
The state has never voted for the PDP at the governorship level. Even in the presidential elections on February 25th, the APC won with 59% of the votes. In addition, the PDP won 10 out of 14 local governments in the state in this governorship election. Undoubtedly, this will be a prized win for the PDP.
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