In 2023 Dauda Lawal of the opposition People's Democratic Party won the Zamfara governorship defeating Bello Matawalle of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who had presided over a near-total breakdown of security in the state...
ZAMFARA STATE (north-west) Governor Dauda Lawal of the PDP is up for re-election in 2027 and is one of the few governors that is consistently loyal to the opposition party...
In neighbouring Zamfara which has been plagued by attacks from Islamist insurgents and criminal gangs APC Governor Bello Matawalle had lost to Dauda Lawal the PDP candidate...