APC writes INEC to adopt Lawan as placeholder clings to Yobe North Senate ticket

In a June 14, 2023, letter to INEC, which was received on June 15 at the electoral office’s headquarters in Abuja, the APC conveyed its intention to upload Mr Lawan’s name as its candidate from the district.

The senate president lost the ticket to Bola Tinubu on June 8 and returned to his district to claim his party’s ticket for his sixth Senate run.

The APC appeared to have relied on a clause that mandated primary contenders to withdraw from a race voluntarily or be arbitrarily substituted by the party as the case may arise.