Senate President, Ahmad Lawan’s stay in the National
Assembly is over as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
certified the candidacy of Bashir Machina.
While Lawan was busy pursuing his presidential ambition,
Machina won the Yobe North Senatorial primary election to represent APC in next
year’s election.
Having lost the presidential ticket to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,
Lawan now wants to claim the Yobe North Senatorial ticket from Machina.
There had been immense pressure on Machina to surrender the
ticket to Lawan who never contested the election and he had boldly refused as
the APC’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu insisted that he must surrender
the ticket to Lawan by force.
But INEC said it is recognising Machina as the APC candidate
for Yobe North and not Lawan.
A certified true copy of INEC’s report from the May 28,
2022, election showed Mr Machina scored 289 votes out of 300 delegates,
corroborating the politician’s public claim that he won the primary and legally
emerged candidate.
The document, certified by the electoral office on June 23,
2022, did not mention Ahmad Lawan, but Machina.
The Senate President has been at the National Assembly since
1999, making him arguably the oldest lawmaker at the Assembly.
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