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BREAKING: Court Annuls Election of Senate President, Ahmad Lawan

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election of the Yobe North Senatorial District which produced Senate President Ahmad Lawan has been nullified by the Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.

The court has consequently declared Bashir Machina as the rightfully elected candidate.

The presiding judge, Justice Fadimatu Murtala, pronounced the ruling on Wednesday.

For months, Machina and Senate President Ahmad Lawan, who is representing Yobe North in the upper chamber, have been at loggerheads over the ticket won by the former at the primary held on June 9, 2022.

Lawan had contested the presidential primary of the ruling party at about the same time as the senatorial primary won by Machina.

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The Senate president, however, lost to Bola Tinubu, a development that forced him to jostle for the senatorial ticket but Machina insisted that he won’t step down.

Lawan has been in the National Assembly as a federal lawmaker for 23 unbroken years.