BREAKING: Lawan swears in Abiru, Dickson, two other new senators
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, swore in four senators recently elected through bye-elections in states across the country.
The new Senators include Senator Adetokunbo Abiru (Lagos East), Senator Henry Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa West), Senator Cleopas Moses (Bayelsa Central), and Senator Nora Ladi Dadu’ut (Plateau South).
The Clerk to the Senate, Ibrahim El-Ladan, administered the Oath of Office and Oath of Allegiance on the new Senators.
It would be recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday December 5, conducted bye-elections for some federal and state legislative houses in 11 states.
The commission had suspended the polls, earlier scheduled to hold in October, following the violence in many parts of the country, resulting from the #EndSARS protest against police brutality.
However, due to the improved security situation in the country, INEC, on November 13, announced December 5 for the conduct of the bye-elections.
The electoral commission also explained that the new date was fixed following consultation between INEC and relevant parties in the electoral process on the security situation in parts of the country.
The senatorial bye-elections were conducted in Bayelsa Central, Bayelsa West, Cross River North, Imo North, Lagos East and Plateau South senatorial districts.
The Commission conducted nine State House of Assembly bye-elections in eight states following the deaths of all former members from Bauchi, Enugu, Kogi, Borno, Cross Rivers, Katsina, Zamfara, and Lagos states.
Meanwhile, four of the six senatorial bye-elections seats became vacant due to the death of their former occupants from Cross River North, Imo North, Lagos East and Plateau south.
The remaining two senatorial bye-elections are to fill seats for Bayelsa Central and Bayelsa West, in which Douye Diri and Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, represented the districts before they were elected as governor and deputy governor of the state respectively.
