INEC Declares Machina winner of Yobe North APC senate ticket

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has affirmed Bashir Machina as the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary for the Yobe North Senatorial District.

A certified true copy of INEC’s report from the May 28, 2022, election showed Bashir Machina scored 289 votes out of 300 delegates, corroborating the politician’s public claim that he won the primary and legally emerged candidate.

The document, certified by the electoral office on June 23, 2022, did not mention Ahmad Lawan, the Senate President who has been scheming to take Mr Machina’s mandate in collusion with the party’s national chairman Abdullahi Adamu.

Sen.Adamu had listed sen. Lawan as the candidate of the APC for Yobe North senatorial election slated for February 2023, claiming that a primary had secretly held in which Ahmad Lawan purportedly emerged winner.

Ahmad Lawan started making attempts to seize the ticket from  Bashir Machina after losing at the ruling party’s presidential convention, which was won handily by Bola Tinubu on June 8.