{"id":116667,"date":"2019-05-13T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T08:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=116667"},"modified":"2019-05-13T09:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T08:57:28","slug":"9th-assembly-presidency-speaks-on-buhari-deciding-saraki-dogaras-successors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=116667","title":{"rendered":"9th Assembly: Presidency speaks on Buhari ‘deciding’ Saraki, Dogara’s successors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The presidency has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari won\u2019t interfere in deciding those to lead the 9th National Assembly.<\/p>\n

Buhari\u2019s Special Adviser on National Assembly matters (Senate), Ita Enang, said the president had devolved the responsibility to the All Progressives Congress, APC, to decide.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Daily Independent, Enang said: \u201cThe president is the leader of the party and the party is handling the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president does not have to speak on every matter. He devolves power which he has done in this case.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe does not give the power to the party because the power belongs to the party; he is just the leader of the party. So, the party of which he is the leader chaired by the national chairman is handling the situation and is on top of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe members themselves, both senators and Reps members are very serious stakeholders at the highest level. So, we are relating with them and they have given assurances that they will respect the party\u2019s position.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The presidency has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari won\u2019t interfere in deciding those to lead the 9th National Assembly. Buhari\u2019s Special Adviser on National Assembly matters (Senate), Ita Enang, said the president had devolved the responsibility to the All Progressives Congress, APC, to decide. Speaking with Daily Independent, Enang said: \u201cThe president is the leader […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,62,6360,1208],"class_list":["post-116667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-politics","tag-sakari","tag-yakubu-dogara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}