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<\/p>\nThe governor-elect made the appeal on Monday in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) in Damaturu.<\/p>\n
He said that Lawan, who became a Senator in 2007, representing Yobe North Senatorial District, had exhibited competence, loyalty, commitment and selflessness worthy of a good leader.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no doubt that Sen. Lawan is capable of giving the desired quality leadership needed for the implementation of the APC\u2019s campaign promises to Nigerians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The governor-elect said the party\u2019s decision to endorse Lawan was to ensure that there was a needed understanding between the upper chamber and the executive to fast-track development and improve the lives of Nigerians.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe wisdom behind the party endorsing Lawan for the senate president was to ensure that the mistake of having another antagonistic leadership in the 9th senate is avoided in the interest of Nigerians and democracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can not afford to be the ruling party, yet, having a divided house,as witnessed in the last four years of confrontation and sabotage.<\/p>\n
\u201cA situation where bills, including the budget, are unnecessarily delayed to frustrate the administration, must not be allowed to happen again,\u201dhe said.<\/p>\n
He commended party stakeholders for supporting the endorsement of Sen. Lawal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am highly optimistic that those nursing ambition for the senate president\u2019s office would finally accept the party\u2019s decision and support the preferred candidate of the party,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alhaji MaiMala Buni, Yobe Governor-elect, has appealed to members of the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to endorse the candidature of Senator Ahmad Lawan for Senate President. The governor-elect made the appeal on Monday in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5977,12117],"class_list":["post-119447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ahmad-lawal","tag-maimala-buni"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}