By Kamil Opeyemi
Zamfara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed the confidence in its ability to win the rerun election ordered by the court in the state.
The Election Petition Appeal Court had declared on Thursday that the election was inconclusive ordering a rerun in three local government areas of the state.
The local government areas concerned are Birnin-Magaji, Bukkuyum and Maradun.
“I assure the general public that the PDP will secure landslide victory in any rerun election Zamfara.
“We are confident that Gov. Dauda Lawal will emerge victorious in the rerun election.
“Gov. Lawal led his opponent, the former governor, Alhaji Bello Matawalle of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with more than 65,000 votes in the March 18 exercise.
“The total votes to be contested in the three affected local government areas where the rerun election will hold is not up to 100,000 votes,’’ PDP’s spokesman in Zamfara, Alhaji Buhari Maijega, told newsmen in Gusau.
Maijega appealed to PDP members in Zamfara to remain calm and to be law-abiding and urged them to turn out in large numbers to vote for the party in the rerun election.
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