{"id":67201,"date":"2019-06-11T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=67201"},"modified":"2019-06-11T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:05:11","slug":"ahmed-lawan-emerges-senate-president-defeats-ndume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ahmed-lawan-emerges-senate-president-defeats-ndume\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Lawan Emerges Senate President, Defeats Ndume\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1636043717175487173\" data-legacy-message-id=\"16b46517b7412ac5\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":ru\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":rv\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>Senator Ahmed Lawan, Yobe State, has emerged the winner of the President of the Senate, defeating Senator Ali Ndume.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Lawan scored 79 votes to become the Senate President of the 9th National Assembly with 79 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The new Senate President was first elected into the House of Representatives in 1999 on the platform of the All Progressive Party, APP. He became a Senator in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Lawan was elected to the Senate in 2007. In 2008, he was a member of the National Assembly&#8217;s Joint Committee on Constitution Review.<\/p>\n<p>Lawan was born in 1959. 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