Tag: Ahmed Lawan

2027: Tinubu’ll get 75% of Northern votes” – Ahmed Lawan 

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Ahmed Lawan

Former Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has predicted that President Bola Tinubu will secure over 75 percent of the votes in the Northern region in 2027 with effective mobilisation by the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Lawan, who was the President of the ninth Senate made the prediction on Wednesday. He spoke after he was appointed as the National Patron of ‘Tinubu House-to-House Network’, at his office in the National Assembly. The delegation, according to a statement by Lawan’s media aide, Ezrel Tabiowo, was led by the organisation’s national chairman, Comrade Yahaya…

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“Mass protest looms if food prices keep rising” ?- Ex-Senate President, Ahmed Lawan

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Ex Senate President, Ahmed Lawan

Former Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has warned that widespread protests will occur if the legislative, Executive, and judicial branches do not collaborate to lower food prices and electricity tariffs. Lawan made this statement during a debate on a Motion introduced by Senator Sunday Karimi, (Kogi-West). Karimi’s Motion addressed the issue of ‘food insecurity’. Lawan emphasised that Nigerians should not be underestimated amid the increasing economic challenges. According to report , he said, “If we don’t take urgent actions on increased food prices and electricity tariffs, we will not like the…

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‘Justify huge allocations to you with improved security’ – Sen. Lawan to Defence Ministry

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Former Senate President and incumbent Chairman of the Senate Committee on Defence, Ahmad Lawan, has said there will be no justification for huge budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Defence if there is no improvement in security across the country. Speaking yesterday, when the Minister of Defence, Abubakar Badaru, appeared before the joint sitting of the Senate and House of Representatives committees on defence to defend the ministry’s budget, Lawan said the committee would work assiduously to scrutinise the ministry’s 2024 Budget proposal. He noted that security remained the backbone…

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Lawan joins 10th Assembly Senate Presidency race, pick new deputy

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There will likely be a three-horse competition for the Senate presidency in the upcoming 10th National Assembly with the outgoing Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, reportedly entering the campaign. According to reports, Lawan had chosen to upset the system in order to relaunch himself. Recall that Lawan unsuccessfully campaigned for president on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform with President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. After a protracted court struggle to secure the senatorial ticket, he was later scheduled to run for Senate. As a result of his arrival, the Senate will now…

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President Buhari to sign 2023 Appropriation Bill on Tuesday – Senate President, Lawan

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The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, said President Muhammadu Buhari will sign the 2023 Appropriation Bill on Tuesday. Lawan stated this yesterday, after a closed-door meeting with the President at the State House, Abuja. According to reports, the Senate President, who arrived at the State House a few minutes before 3:00 pm, met Buhari behind closed doors in the President’s office in the Villa. Lawan said he discussed Buhari’s recent additional loan request and the 2023 Appropriate Bill. He regretted that the signing was coming in a bit later than that…

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“National Assembly can only expose but can’t punish corrupt officials”, Says Ahmed Lawan

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Senate President Ahmad Lawan, yesterday, lamented that the National Assembly is incapacitated in the fight against corruption and waste of public resources because the 1999 Constitution did not give the parliament the needed legislative power to do so. He said this while responding to a lecture delivered by a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, during the 6th convocation ceremony of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies-University of Benin (NILDS-UNIBEN) held at the National Assembly, Abuja. Bankole delivered his lecture on the theme: “Challenges of…

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2023: APC asks INEC to replace Lawan with Machina as Yobe-North senatorial candidate

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise Bashir Machina as the party’s authentic candidate for the Yobe-North senatorial district in the 2023 general elections. The APC, in a letter dated October 12, titled: ‘Notification of Court Judgment In Favour of Bashir Sheriff’, and signed by its National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu and the Secretary, Iyiola Omisore, directed INEC to also publish the name of Machina in its portal, in line with the court order. Recall that a Federal High Court in Damaturu, Yobe…

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Oil theft: 1million barrels of crude stolen daily — Senate president, Ahmad Lawan

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…Says crude oil thieves are Nigeria’s worst enemies The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, says Nigeria loses one million barrels of crude oil daily to crude theft. He made the remarks at the presentation of the 2023 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, yesterday. According to him, the Nigerian economy was still challenged by a dearth of revenues and the situation worsened recently, culminating in the loss of one million barrels of crude per day. He said: “Translated into monetary terms,…

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Economic Sabotage: ‘Massive crude oil thefts pushing Nigeria’s economy into coma’ – Senate President  

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…Gbajabiamila also expresses concern The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, yesterday lamented that the generation and collection of revenues have remained Nigeria’s major challenges as well as the massive loss of revenue through oil theft, saying it is “debilitating and threatening to throw the nation’s economy into a coma”. Lawan, who made the observation in his opening speech while welcoming his colleagues from the long annual recess, noted that “revelations about the scale of oil theft shows that until the Government take decisive actions, Nigeria could soon lose any such revenue…

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2023: Amaechi, Lawan, 19 other APC presidential aspirants to meet in Abuja over Tinubu

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As part of efforts to rally support for the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general election, all the presidential aspirants of the ruling party are slated to meet in Abuja, next week. The meeting is coming barely three months after some of them went head-to-head at the primary for the presidential ticket of APC that eventually produced Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the party’s flagbearer. This development is coming ahead of next month’s commencement of campaigns for the next general elections and less than…

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