16 Facts About Ahmad Lawan

Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan was born on 12 January 1959 and is a Nigerian politician and former lecturer who served as the 14th president of the Nigerian Senate from 2019 to 2023.

Ahmad Lawan represents the Yobe North Senatorial District in the Senate as a member of the All Progressives Congress.

Ahmad Lawan was reelected in 2003 before successfully running to become Yobe North Senator in 2007.

Ahmad Lawan was born on 12 January 1959 in Gashua, then in the north of British Nigeria.

Ahmad Lawan completed primary school at Sabon Gari Primary School, Gashua in 1974 and secondary school at Government Secondary School, Gashua in 1979 before receiving a bachelor's degree in Geography from the University of Maiduguri in 1984.

Ahmad Lawan worked in the Yobe State Civil Service as an Education Officer in the state Ministry of Education in 1985 and 1986 before lecturing at his alma mater, University of Maiduguri between 1987 and 1997.

In 2009, as chairman of the Senate committee on Public Accounts, Ahmad Lawan initiated and sponsored the Desertification Control Commission Bill.

Ahmad Lawan stated that the Tiga Dam and Challawa Gorge Dam had already reduced water flow drastically, and the Jama'are River was now the main source of water in the Yobe River.

Ahmad Lawan said the dams caused intense poverty, increased desert encroachment, migration and conflicts between arable farmers and herdsmen.

Ahmad Lawan ran for reelection in Yobe North Senatorial District on the ANPP platform in the 9 April 2011 elections.

Ahmad Lawan won with 92,799 votes, trailed by Hassan Kafayos Hussaini of the People's Democratic Party with 76,960 votes.

Ahmad Lawan was named chairman, Senate committee on defence on 8 August 2023.

In 2015 Ahmad Lawan ran for the senate president after APC zoned the position to the north east of Nigeria based on the party's power-sharing formula among the six geo-political zones at the time.

Ahmad Lawan was at the International Conference Centre when the election was conducted and a winner emerged.

On 11 June 2019, Ahmad Lawan was elected and sworn in as the Senate President of the Nigerian 9th Assembly, after defeating his opponent, Senator Ali Ndume who is an APC Senator.

Multiple legislators corroborated the story with several legislators expressing anger, not that Gbajabiamila and Ahmad Lawan allegedly took bribes but instead that the bribes were not shared equally among the legislators as other legislators claimed to have received $5,000 for representatives and $20,000 for senators.