{"id":94880,"date":"2022-05-13T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T20:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=94880"},"modified":"2022-05-13T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T20:57:17","slug":"2023-zamfara-governor-matawalle-leads-all-aspirants-to-submit-nomination-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-zamfara-governor-matawalle-leads-all-aspirants-to-submit-nomination-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Zamfara governor, Matawalle leads all aspirants to submit nomination forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governor of Zamfara state, Dr Bello Matawalle has led all stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to submit collectively the nomination forms of all aspirants.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">To prevent a repeat of the 2019 scenerio in Zamfara where the party lost all elective offices from gubernatorial to the state houses of assembly seats due to invalidly conducted primaries in the state.Speaking to journalists, Matawalle said: \u201cAs you can see we are here today to submit our nomination forms from the governorship, senate, house of representatives and state assembly all from Zamfara state candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see me here with lots of prominent people from Zamfara state, our former governor Ahmed Sani Yerima, minister of humanitarian affairs, some of the senators from the national assembly, members of the house of representatives and all houses of assembly candidates from Zamfara state have come here to submit our forms which we have come to do so jointly to the organizing secretary of the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the mode of primary to be adopted in the state, he said: \u201cThe party would decide the type of primary to go for all its vying candidates to be conducted in Nigeria and not just only my state\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor of Zamfara state, Dr Bello Matawalle has led all stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to submit collectively the nomination forms of all&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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