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Lawan Defeats Ndume to Clinch Senate President Seat …Omo-Agege Emerges Deputy

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Senator-Elect Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan from Yobe State today defeated Senator-Elect Mohammed Ali Ndume from Borno State with 79 votes to 28 to emerge as the Senate President of the 9th National Assembly.

The Newly Elected Senate President, Senator Ibrahim Lawan and his opponent, Senator Ali Ndume

A total of 107 senators out of the 109 in Nigeria voted in the exercise inside the Red Chambers, in Abuja.

There was a pointer to who was heading for victory when Lawan stepped out to cast his vote and was greeted with a chorus of applause and standing ovation from majority of senators in the Assembly.

After the vote was counted and a winner clearly emerged, Ndume walked up to Lawan and congratulated him with a handshake.

Fifty-eight-year-old Lawan was thereafter sworn in as Senate President by the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed Sanni-Omolori.

The moment Sen Ndume congratulated Sen Lawan who defeated him in the race for Senate President of the 9th National Assembly on June 11, 2019.
Sen Lawan being sworn in as Senate President

The post of the Deputy Senate President was contested by APC’s Senator-Elect Ovie Omo-Agege and the erstwhile Deputy Speaker, PDP’s Senator-Elect Ike Ekweremadu.

Fifty-six-year-old Omo-Agege won the contest scoring 68 votes against Ekweremadu’s 37.

According to Sanni-Omolori, 105 senators voted, one abstained and there was one invalid vote.

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege taking a vote of allegiance after his election as Deputy Senate President
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