Here are 10 things who did not know about New President of the Senate, Senator Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan:
1.Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan was born in 1959.
2.He became a senator in 2007.
3.He is a Nigerian senator who represents the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the Yobe North Constituency of Yobe State.
4.He
received a bachelor’s degree in Geography from the University of
Maiduguri, a master’s degree in remote sensing from Ahmadu Bello
University and a doctorate degree in remote sensing/GIS from Cranfield
University, UK.
5.Elected to the House of Representatives for the
northern state of Yobe in 1999, at different times Lawan chaired the
House Committees on education and agriculture.
6.In 2008, he was a member of the National Assembly’s Joint Committee on Constitution Review.
7.In
2009, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Lawan
initiated and sponsored the Desertification Control Commission Bill.
8.In
August 2009, Senator Lawan spoke against the proposed Kafin Zaki Dam.
He stated that the Tiga Dam and Challawa Gorge Dam had already reduced
water flow drastically, and the Jama’are River was now the main source
of water in the Yobe River. He said the dams caused intense poverty,
increased desert encroachment, migration and conflicts between arable
farmers and herdsmen.
9.Lawan ran for reelection in Yobe North
Senatorial District on the ANPP platform in the 9 April 2011 elections.
He won with 92,799 votes, trailed by Hassan Kafayos Hussaini of the
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) with 76,960 votes.
10.He was
elected President of the Ninth Senate on this day, Tuesday, June 11,
2019, after 107 of the 109 senator-elect voted for him ahead of fellow
APC senator Ali Ndume.
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