Dr. Bello Muhammad Matawallen Maradun Barden Hausa
The man who bring change to lives of Zamfara Statewand Nigeria in General !!
- Bello Muhammad (born February 12, 1962), known as Bello Matawalle, is a Nigerian politician and teacher who has served as the Governor of Zamfara State since 2019. After briefly serving in the Abacha-era state house of assembly and serving as a state commissioner from 1999 to 2003 in the Ahmad Sani Yerima administration in the Fourth Republic, he first won a elected office in 2003 as a member of the House of Representatives for Bakura/Maradun and retained the office until 2015—first as a member of the All Nigeria Peoples Party before switching to the People's Democratic Party in 2011. Four years after losing his Bakura/Maradun Constituency seat in 2015, Matawalle became the 2019 PDP gubernatorial nominee and won the office after a Supreme Court ruling disqualified the original winner. In 2021, he defected from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress after a defection rally in Gusau alongside most Zamfara State elected officials.
- Matawalle is married to four wives and has children.
- 1969 - Born in Maradun Localgovernment, Zamfara State.
- 1979 - He obtained First School Leaving Certificate from Maradun Township Primary School in 1979.
- 1984 - He graduated from VTC Bunza. And he attended Yaba College of Technology, Lagos and later went to Thames Valley University, London.
- 1998 - He ran for a house of assembly seat and won after he left the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Abuja, joining the defunct United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP).
- Between 1999 and 2003 - He served as Zamfara State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Commissioner for Environment, Rural Development and then Commissioner for Youth and Sports.
- 2003 - Matawalle was elected into the House of Representatives by his constituents Bakura/Maradun, on the platform of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).
- 2007 - Matawalle was re-elected still on the platform of the ANPP only to defect to PDP on which platform he was re-elected for a third term in 2011.
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2019 - Matawalle polled 189,452 in the March polls as against the
534,541 votes for Muktar Idris, the APC candidate.
Muktar Idris was at first, issued the certificate of return, however, the court of appeal in Sokoto ordered that the INEC should withdraw the certificate. The Supreme Court later pronounced that the votes cast for the APC in the election as wasted and ordered that the candidate with the second highest votes be sworn in on Wednesday. This is because the APC failed to conduct primary election for all the candidates in Zamfara State. - 2021 - On June 29, Matawalle, along with all 3 Zamfara Senators, 6 of 7 Representatives, and all 24 House of Assembly members, officially switched to the APC at a rally in Gusau attended by other APC Governors.