Zamfara: We are ready to conduct credible LG polls – Gov Lawal

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has expressed his readiness to behaviour credible and acceptable section authorities elections crossed the State.

The Governor inaugurated Hon. Bala Aliyu Gusau arsenic the president of the Zamfara State Independent Electoral Commission, ZASIEC, arsenic portion of his administration’s preparations for the section authorities election.

The swearing-in ceremonial was held connected Monday, during the Zamfara State Executive Council gathering astatine the assembly chamber, Government House, Gusau.

A connection issued by the Governor’s spokesman, Sulaiman Bala Idris, disclosed that the existent enactment of the 14 Sole Administrators volition extremity connected October 23, 2024.

The connection added that the president of ZASIEC was sworn successful by the Chief Judge, Justice Kulu Aliyu, represented by Justice Mukhtar Yusha’u, astatine the lawsuit of the Executive Council.

The Governor said helium signed the Zamfara State Electoral Law amendments, a fewer weeks agone regarding the upcoming section authorities election.

He said: “Based connected the Supreme Court’s caller judgement concerning Local Government elections, we needed to behaviour elections successful our section authorities councils.

“Accordingly, with the signing of the amended law, the State Independent Elections Commission volition denote the predetermination timetable arsenic soon arsenic imaginable truthful that we volition person democratically elected section authorities councils successful Zamfara State.

“The Zamfara State Independent Electoral Council, ZASIEC, is to travel up with guidelines and modalities connected the elections, and it is expected that we each volition springiness the indispensable enactment and practice towards the occurrence of the exercise.”

In different development, Governor Lawal instructed the Secretary to the State Government to enactment with the Deputy Governor to promptly put the inauguration of the Zamfara State Investment Promotion Agency, ZIPA, truthful that it could run effectively.