Senate President, Lawan Debunks Plans To Run For Presidency In 2023

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Saturday denied he is planning for president in 2023.

Lawan’s Special Adviser on Media, Ola Awoniyi, made this known in a Statement while reacting to certain speculations and publication that the Senate President intended to run for presidency, after President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term elapses.

Awoniyi opted that it is rather too early for anyone to start thinking about 2023 politics now.

He added that the Senate President is more preoccupied with extant issues of governance.

In the statement, “The attention of the office of the President of the Senate has been drawn to a rather puerile media report that the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, is making plans to run for president in 2023. The report was first published by the Daily Independent newspaper of Friday, 17th July, 2020 and reproduced later by the Sahara Reporters.”

Describing the report and its origin,  Awoniyi stated that, “The report apparently has its source in beer parlour gossips and should be treated with the contempt which it and those who concocted it deserves.”

“It is true that the Senate President was involved in the consultations that President Muhammadu Buhari held prior to the last emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress.

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“But there was nothing extra-ordinary in his involvement in such consultations, given his status as holder of one of the highest political offices in Nigeria and on the platform of the APC. Such is required of any concerned member of the party.

“The Senate President believes that it is premature for anybody to be talking now about 2023 when all hands should be on deck against the myriad of challenges that faces our nation in this period,” he said.