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Matawalle was re-elected in 2007 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.
Matawalle polled 189,452 in the March polls as against the 534,541 votes for Muktar Idris, the [[All Progressives Congress|APC]] candidate.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}
Muktar Idris was at first, issued the certificate of return, however, the court of appeal in Sokoto ordered that the [[Independent National Electoral Commission|INEC]] should withdraw the certificate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dailypost.ng/2019/05/27/zamfara-inec-confirms-withdrawing-64-certificates-return-retrieve/|title=Zamfara: INEC confirms withdrawing 64 certificates of return, to retrieve more|last=Odunsi|first=Wale|date=2019-05-27|website=Daily Post Nigeria|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref>
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