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APC Picks Shehu Lawan to Replace Tinubu’s Running Mate, Kashim Shettima in Senate

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The Borno state chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has picked the state Attorney General, Kaka Shehu Lawan as the party’s candidate for the Borno Central Senatorial seat currently occupied by Sen Kashim Shettima, now vice presidential candidate of the party.

APC returning officer and former deputy governor of Taraba state, Alhaji Uba Magari, while announcing the results of the election held at the party state secretariat in Maiduguri Thursday, July 14, said the former Commissioner of Justice scored 459 votes out of 480 valid votes, The Sun reports.

He declared: “Having satisfied the provisions of the electoral law, by the authority vested on me by the national Chairman of our great, I declared that Bar Kaka Shehu Lawan, former Attorney General, has been validly elected as the APC candidate for Borno Central Senatorial seat.”

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