Lawan Musa Majakura, a 34-year-old lawmaker-elect, has revealed how the Yobe State House of Assembly Speaker, Ahmed Mirwa Lawan arrested him because he criticised him for alleged poor representation.
Majakura, who is a candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), defeated the speaker in a heated election contest to represent the Nguru II constituency of Nguru Local Government Area.
He scored 6,648 votes, to defeat Mirwa, who scored 6,466 votes.
Speaking in an interview with journalists, the lawmaker-elect revealed how he was arrested on two occasions.
He said, “Actually, I was arrested two times. One of them was from a politician in the APC before I left the party after I criticised him on Facebook. He told the police to arrest and detain me for five days.
“The second one was from the Speaker, whom I defeated. I criticised him for poor representation and I was arrested and detained for 48 hours. It was last year during Ramadan.
“They arrested me for standing with my people. For example, whenever I heard that the state government approved a constituency project for state lawmakers, I used to verify where our own was executed and if it had any impact on our society. These were among the questions I used to ask myself. I even followed them to make sure the project was done. So I used to criticise him whenever I discovered that we had a problem he could solve but he failed to do so. And I would criticise with facts.”