The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has declared the Zamfara State governorship election as inconclusive.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Dauda Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the winner of the election.
But the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Bello Matawalle, had challenged the outcome of the March 18 governorship election at the tribunal but his petition was dismissed for lacking in merit.
In a unanimous decision on Thursday, the three-member panel led by Justice Oyebisi Folayemi, on Thursday nullified the return of Mr Lawal of the PDP as the winner of the governorship poll.
Justice Sybil Nwaka who read the lead judgement ordered the 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.
According to report by Channels TV, 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.
