Senator Lawan’s 5th Term In A Row: A Historic Milestone

• Lawan has been re-elected for the 5th consecutive term as Senator.

• Lawan was declared the winner on Sunday night.

• Lawan has won the National Assembly’s parliamentary election for the seventh consecutive time.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has won the senatorial election for Yobe North, in Yobe State for the fifth consecutive term.

The Senate president was formally declared the winner on Sunday night by the Independent National Electoral Commission which announced that Lawan polled 91,318 votes, representing 74.7 per cent of the total valid votes (122,193), to defeat his closest rival, Bello Ilu of the Peoples Democratic Party who polled 22,849 votes.

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This is the seventh parliamentary election won consecutively by Lawan into the National Assembly since 1999, the first two of which gave him a ticket to the House of Representatives while the last five gave him a ticket to the Senate.

It would be recalled that Lawan lost to the PDP at his polling unit in Katuzu Primary School polling unit 001B,  Gashua, where he got 114 votes while the PDP senatorial candidate got 219, the New Nigeria Peoples Party got 11 votes, African Democratic Congress got a vote and five votes were recorded as invalid.

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Also, in his polling unit,  the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu got 107 votes, while PDP’s  Atiku Abubakar won with 186.

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