(born 30 June 1961) is a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from Taraba State. He represents Taraba North in the current 9th National Assembly. Senator Lau is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Procurement.<\/p>\n
Lau is a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n
Taraba North Senatorial District covers six local government areas: (Jalingo, Yorro, Zing, Lau, Ardo- Kola and Krim- Lamido).Shuaibu Isa Lau was born in Lau local government area in Taraba state[1] on born 30 June 1961[2] into the family of Alhaji Isa Ali and Hajji Zainab Isa Ali. He started his educational journey at Local Education Authority Primary School Lau, from 1969 and 1975 and then General Murtala Muhammed College, Yola for his Ordinary Level School Certificate between 1975 and 1980. Thereafter, he proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he obtained a Bachelor Degree in Engineering in 1984.
\nIn 2015, Lau joined politics by contesting for the Taraba North senatorial seat under the platform of People’s Democratic Party but Abubakar Danladi Sani of the All Progressive Congress was declared winner. He later sought redress in the court and won on 23 June 2017 to became a member of 8th assembly in the Senate until June 2019.[5][6][7][8]<\/p>\n
He was re-elected under the same political party, People’s Democratic Party on 28 March, 2019 where he polled 113, 580 votes to defeat his closest rival, Ahmed Yusuf of the All Progressive Congress who scored 111,412 votes to represent Taraba North for another four years.[9] He is the Chairman of Senate Committee on Public Procurement at the 9th National Assembly of the Nigerian senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-25714","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25714","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\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25714"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=25714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}