APC’s Muktar Idris wins Zamfara Gov polls | Nairalaw

Muktar Idris of All Progressives Congress has emerged winner of
Zamfara governorship election held on Saturday.

Muktar secured 534,541 votes out of the 810,782 votes cast
across the 14 local government areas of the state.

Announcing the result, the Returning Officer, Prof. Kabir Bala,
said, “Muktar Idris of APC, having met all the requirements of the
law and scored the highest votes, is hereby declared as the winner
and returned elected as the governor of Zamfara State.”

He said that Bello Matawalle of Peoples Democratic Party scored
189,452 to emerge second; while Senator Saidu Dansadau of National
Rescue Movement scored 15,177 votes; and Sani Abdullahi of All
Progressives Grand Alliance had 3,865 votes.

According to the Returning Officer, the state has 1,717,128
registered voters, of which 823,294 were accredited during the
election.

(NAN)

Nigeria Immigration Service Arraigns Passports
Racketeer

The Nigeria Immigration Service has arraigned Mr. Kenneth Aniebo
for alleged Passport racketeering at Federal High Court Abuja today
10th day of March, 2019.

Mr. Kenneth Aniebo aka “Ambassador” specializes in forging
documents to procure official passport for persons who are not
entitled to the said document. He was apprehended with five
Nigerian Official passports which he procured for some business men
last year.

He was subsequently arraigned in court by the legal Unit of the
Service on a 3 count charge of conspiracy, submission of false
information for the purpose of procuring passport for others and
forgery which are culpable offences under section 10 (c, e & f)
of the Immigration Act 2015. The Court has ordered that he be
remanded in Kuje Prison pending hearing of the case which was
adjourned for 28 May, 2019.

The Comptroller General of Immigration Service Muhammad
Babandede MFR uses this medium to advise the general public to
avoid patronizing unauthorized persons while seeking services from
the NIS.

SIGNED
DCI Sunday James pcc
Service Public Relations Officer
For: Comptroller General of Immigration