The Independent National Electoral Commission has confirmed Bashir Sheriff Machina as the All Progressive Congress candidate for Yobe North Senatorial District.
Effectively, the decision by INEC has put paid the ambition of the Senate President Ahmed Lawan to return to Senate for the 5th time.
Machina had contested for the ticket of the party at a time the Senate President had gone ahead to contest for the presidential ticket of the party.
Lawan lost the bid to secure the ticket of tbe party.
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His attempt to snatch the ticket from Machina had been met with stiff resistance as Machina said he would not surrender his mandate.
He even said he too could be made the senate president.
Lawan had earlier spent four years in the House of Representatives between 1999 and 2003 before he sought election into the senate.