Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan, a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, representing Yobe North Constituency on Tuesday, emerged as President of the 9th Senate.<\/p>\n
He was born on January 12, 1959 in the Gashua town of Yobe State.<\/p>\n
Lawan completed his primary education at Sabon Gari Primary School, Gashua in 1974 and then attended Government Secondary School, Gashua where he got his O\u2019Level in 1979.<\/p>\n
He proceeded to the University of Maiduguri where he obtained a Bachelors degree in Geography, in 1984.<\/p>\n
Lawan obtained a Master\u2019s degree in Remote Sensing from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and a Doctorate degree in Remote Sensing\/GIS from Cranfield University, UK, in 1990 and 1996 respectively.<\/p>\n
Lawan had worked in the Yobe state civil service as an Education Officer in the Ministry of Education from 1985 to 1986. He then got a teaching job at the University of Maiduguri, where he lectured for 10 years from 1987 to 1997.<\/p>\n
In 1999, Lawan was elected into the House of Representatives, where he chaired such committee as House Committees on Education and Agriculture.<\/p>\n
In 2007, Ahmad Lawan was elected a Senator on the platform of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP).<\/p>\n
In 2009, as chairman of the Senate committee on Public Accounts, he initiated and sponsored the Desertification Control Commission Bill.<\/p>\n
In 2011, Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan won a second term as Senator representing Yobe North Senatorial District and was re-elected on the platform of the ANPP.<\/p>\n
In the 2015 general elections, he won a third term in office under the All Progressives Congress (APC). He was Majority Leader till the 8th Senate was dissolved.<\/p>\n
In 2019, Lawan won a fourth term also on the APC platform.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday June 11 after the Senate Presidency election, Clerk to the National Assembly, Sani Omolori, declared Lawan as the winner.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201c107 cast their votes. Lawan polled 79 votes while Senator Ali Ndume (his main challenger) polled 28 votes of total 107 votes cast.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn this strength, Lawan is hereby elected as Senate President.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawan, a Muslim, is married with children and holds the traditional titles of Dan Masanin Bade and Garkuwan Daliban Gamui.<\/p>\n
He is a recipient of the National Honour of the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25436,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-25435","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25715,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25435\/revisions\/25715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25435"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=25435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}