Yobe Decides: 35-Year-Old PDP Candidate Unseats Speaker House Of Assembly Seeking 6th Term

• The 35-year-old PDP candidate Lawan Musa have defeated the Speaker Yobe State House of Assembly.

• Honourable Ahmed Lawan Mirwa of the APC was seeking his 6th term.

• Lawan Musa won with over 6,600 votes.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Lawan Musa, a 35-year-old candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party has unseated the Speaker Yobe State House of Assembly, Honourable Ahmed Lawan Mirwa of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the just concluded 2023 State House of Assembly election in Yobe state.

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The Returning Officer, Dr. Habib Muhammad, who announced the result at Nguru on Saturday said, Lawan Musa of the PDP scored 6,648 votes to defeat the sitting Speaker of the House of Assembly, Ahmed Lawan Mirwa of APC who scored 6,466 votes.

The Speaker Mirwa who represents Nguru II constituency has been in the State House of Assembly for about two decades.

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If Mirwa had won, this would have been his sixth term in office, however, that dream has now been stopped by the 35-year-old Lawan Musa.

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