Simon Lalong has been Sworn in as Senator representing Plateau south , He will replace Senator Napoleon Bali.
Senator Lalong was sworn in at the beginning of Wednesday’s plenary, in a brief ceremony performed by the clerk of the Senate .
The new lawmaker , how is a lawyer and two-term Speaker of Plateau State House of Assembly, and also served as Minister of Labour and Employment in President Tinubu’s Federal Cabinet tendered his resignation privately to the President after last Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Recall that the appeal court sitting in Abuja, had on the 7th of November, affirmed that Senator Lalong, the Erstwhile Governor of Plateau state and the Director General of Tinubu’s Presidential Campaign Organisation in the February 25 election was the winner of the election.
The victory of Lalong and some other contestants in the 2023 general elections was after the appeal court sacked all the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who were declared winners by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the February 25 national assembly elections.
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