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New Naira Policy Cost Me Re-election Bid – Matawalle

Juliet Amaka
Juliet Amaka
Published: June 13, 2025
Last updated: June 13, 2025
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Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, has said that his refusal to back the Naira redesign policy of Muhammadu Buhari-led Government cost him his re-election bid.

He also said Zamfara saw more military personnel deployed during the election than when the State Government requested military assistance to route out insurgents.

According to him, the security situation would have been better than it is today had the military been deployed earlier.

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“What’s being said is that we went to the court over new naira notes redesign. They said myself, Ganduje, and El Rufai would be punished accordingly,” Matawalle said in an interview with DW Hausa.

He added that soldiers who were deployed to the state during the election prevented voters from voting for him.

According to him, APC supporters were “beaten up and prevented from voting” for the ruling party during the governorship election.

Matawalle who ran in the All Progressives Congress ticket, polled 311,976 votes while Dauda Lawal-Dare of the Peoples Democratic Party garnered 377,726 votes.

Matawalle emerged governor in 2019 on the PDP ticket after a court of appeal judgment nullified the APC primary elections which made Muktar Idris the candidate and winner of the election.

Speaking on DW Hausa, the governor argued that “We have had security challenges in Zamfara state, and we’ve been asking them to send soldiers to us, but they didn’t.

“But three days to the (governorship) election, they sent over 300 vehicles conveying soldiers into Zamfara.

“Such a high number of soldiers. If they could send them to us to fight insecurity, it would be better. But they only sent them during elections.”

“They were over 50 soldiers in our polling unit in Zamfara. They were even straight about it that those voting for APC would not be allowed to vote.

“When I saw that (the heavy deployment of soldiers), I knew they were up to something. That was why it didn’t bother me because I received an intelligence report on what they were going to do against me. Not only myself but other governors that did something that is considered wrong.

“People were harassed and beaten because they wanted to vote for APC. We all have this evidence on video. When we called soldiers to come to our aid, they didn’t come. But I have left everything to God,” he explained.
However, Matawalle said despite his loss, the presidential victory of the APC’s Bola Tinubu is enough consolation for him.

“Correct, we delivered Zamfara State to the APC during the presidential election. But we lost the governorship.

“Nevertheless, we are happy about his emergence. If he didn’t win it would have been more painful for us. But I am not worried at all,” he explained.

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