Senate President Ahmed Lawan’s bid to clinch the presidential candidacy of the All Progressives Congress has ended fruitless.
He could only score 152 votes, less than Rotimi Amaechi’s 316 and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s 235.
Lawan was initially believed to be supporting the party’s leader, Bola Tinubu.
But he later got the N100m nomination form and fought deep into the race.
He was dramatically announced the consensus candidate by the party’s Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, on Monday, but the feat did not last as the party overruled it.
Tinubu was believed to be instrumental to his emergence as the Senate President.
