Ahmad Lawan, the Senate President, has won the senatorial election for Yobe North in Yobe State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission declared Lawan the winner on Sunday night, saying he received 91,318 votes, or 74.7 percent of the total valid votes (122,193), to defeat his closest rival, Bello Ilu of the Peoples Democratic Party, who received 22,849 votes.
Lawan has won seven consecutive parliamentary elections into the National Assembly since 1999, the first two of which gave him a ticket to the House of Representatives and the last five 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.
Also, in his polling unit, the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu got 107 votes, while PDP’s Atiku Abubakar won with 186.