It is double tragedy for the Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan; having lost his bid to become the President of Nigeria, he has also lost his bid to continue representing his Yobe North Senatorial District at the upper chamber of the National Assembly.
Sen. Ahmed Lawan has been at the Federal Parliament since 1999 when he was elected to the House of Representatives.
Sen. Lawan came fourth with 152 votes at the party’s presidential primary election conducted on 7th and 8th June, which Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu won.
He has also lost at the Yobe North Senatorial primary election won by Bashir Sherrif Machina, scuttling his bid to remain at the Senate.
Machina, in a letter dated 13tg June, 2022 and addressed to the National Chairman of APC, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, dismissed the possibility of Sen. Lawan manouvering his way back to the Senate, insisting that he remains the senatorial candidate of Yobe North, having defeated Lawan at the senatorial primary.
“I write to reaffirm my continual aspiration as the All Progressive Congress unequivocal senatorial candidate for Yobe North Senatorial District, following my clearance, participation, and victory at the party primaries where I pulled 289 votes out of the 300 total votes cast,” Machina said in the letter.
“I write to reaffirm that I remain committed to the mandate which I won at the primaries, and I have not in any form or manner communicated otherwise,” he emphasised.
“I have been informed of a purported malicious, and mischievous report and insinuation to the contrary,” he said.
He declared: “Please note that I never at any time, signed or communicated in any form any intent to vacate the mandate, which was won at the primaries.”
He stated: “I am totally committed to my mandate and am working towards delivering Yobe North Senatorial District to our Great Party, the All-Progressive Congress.”
