By Ishaya Ibrahim
Speaker of the Yobe State House of Assembly, Ahmed Lawan Mirwa, has lost his seventh re-election attempt to represent the Nguru II Constituency.
Lawan Musa, a 35-year-old candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party unseated Mirwa of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the just concluded 2023 State House of Assembly election in Yobe state
The Returning Officer, Dr. Habib Muhammad, who announced the result at Nguru on Saturday said, Lawan Musa of the PDP scored 6,648 votes to defeat the sitting Speaker of the House of Assembly, Ahmed Lawan Mirwa of APC who scored 6,466 votes.
The Speaker Mirwa who represents Nguru II constituency has been in the State House of Assembly for about two decades.
If Mirwa had won, this would have been his sixth term in office, however, that dream has now been stopped by the 35-year-old Lawan Musa