Speaker of Borno State House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan, has been re-elected for Guzamala State constituency on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) with 18,339 votes to beat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the constituency, who scored 181 votes.
With over a decade on the Speaker’s seat, Lawan is the longest serving Speaker in the House.
The Guzamala election results for the governorship indicated that Governor Babagana Zulum scored 18,341 votes, while his PDP counterpart candidate, Mohammed Jajari, of the PDP managed 200 votes.
Personal Assistant to the Speaker, Kaka Goni, noted that the people of Guzamala would not regret re-electing the Speaker to serve them in the next four years.
He said the election would enable the Speaker to continue to provide the dividends of democracy in the state.
According to him, the dividends of democracy are in the health, education, job creation sectors of the economy.
IN Taraba State, the only female member-elect of the House of Assembly, Victoria Alhassan, has urged women not to give in to intimidation from the men as they pursue the political careers.
With her emergence, the dream of ensuring a reasonable number of female legislators in the Taraba Assembly has been dashed.
Alhassan, who will represent Bali I constituency on the platform of PDP, defeated her male opponents from the APC, New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP) to emerge winner.
While speaking with our state correspondent, Alhassan tied her victory to God’s mercy.
She vowed not to allow herself to be intimidated or overshadowed by her male counterparts when the 10th legislative session finally commences.
More to her doggedness, she pledged to work round the clock to stand and make the voice of women in the state and the country at large heard.
Urging women to get over inferiority complex in their pursuit of their political ambitions, she added: “Had it been I went back home to sleep after being defeated in previous elections, would I have been celebrating today? So, I call on my fellow women to wake up from slumber by refusing to be intimidated by men.”
