Zamfara: Matawalle Nominates Former PDP Senator As New Deputy Governor

Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara has nominated Senator Hassan Muhammad Nasiha as the new Deputy Governor of the state to replace Barrister Mahdi Aliyu Gusau who was impeached earlier on Wednesday.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the nomination of Senator Nasiha was made within minutes of the

The governor sent a letter to the state Assembly, seeking the screening of Nasiha.

Speaker of the House, Honourable Nasiru Muazu Magarya, read the governor’s letter at plenary on Wednesday.

First elected a senator in 2007, Nasiha currently represents Zamfara Central in the National Assembly.

He lost his seat to Senator Kabiru Marafa in 2011, but returned to the red chamber in 2019 when the Supreme Court voided  the elections of the candidates of All Progressive Congress following their failure to conduct primaries in the state. He was elected to the Senate the second time on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

However, when Matawalle defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC in 2021, Nasiha joined him before his new probable step into the office of deputy governor of Zamfara State.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG had earlier reported that the Zamfara House of Assembly on Wednesday impeached the state deputy governor Mahadi Aliyu from office following the adoption of a report by a panel of investigation set up to investigate him days ago.

 The panel began sitting two days ago.

The removal followed the adoption of a motion by Majority Leader, Faruku Dosara (APC -Maradun 1) at the plenary of the House of Assembly in Gusau.

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