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Lawan Loses Again As Court Affirms Machina APC Senatorial Candidate For Yobe North

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2 years ago

Nov 28, 2022.

An appeal court has affirmed Machina as the APC Senatorial candidate for Yobe North.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim, has lost his re-election bid, as the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, affirmed Bashir Machina as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the 2023 Yobe North Senatorial District election.

The appellate court, in a judgement that was delivered by a three-man panel that was led by the President of the Court, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensen, dismissed Lawan’s appeal as lacking in merit.

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The embattled Senate President had gone before the appellate court to challenge the judgement of a Federal High Court in Damaturu, which had, on September 28, 2022, declared Machina as the bonafide flag-bearer of the APC for the impending senatorial election.

It will be recalled that while Lawan, picked the presidential form of the APC and participated in the primary election that was won by Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, on the other hand, Machina vied and won his bid to take over as the candidate of the party for the senatorial contest.

Following his defeat at the presidential primary, Lawan, urged Machina to relinquish the senatorial ticket to him, a request the latter blatantly refused.

However, in the face of the controversy, the APC submitted Lawan’s name to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as its senatorial candidate for Yobe North.

Miffed by the development, Machina headed to court to seek redress. He specifically asked the court to declare him as the validly elected senatorial candidate of the APC for the senatorial election, a prayer that was accordingly granted.