{"id":125230,"date":"2019-06-10T17:52:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125230"},"modified":"2019-06-10T17:53:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:53:58","slug":"plateau-9th-assembly-elects-33-year-old-final-year-student-as-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125230","title":{"rendered":"Plateau 9th Assembly elects 33-year-old final year student as Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ninth Plateau State House of Assembly has elected Hon. Abok Ayuba, a 33-year-old 500-level student of Law at the University of Jos, as its speaker.<\/p>\n

Ayuba was elected on Monday at the Assembly\u2019s inaugural sitting.<\/p>\n

The newly-elected Speaker, who represents Jos East constituency, was unanimously elected by members without subjecting it through electoral process.<\/p>\n

The election followed a nomination by the member representing Jos North-North constituency, Hon. Ibrahim Baba-Hassan, and was seconded by member representing Jos North-West constituency, Hon. Esther Simi Dusu.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Assembly re-elected the immediate past deputy, Hon. Salleh Yipmong, representing Dengi constituency as its Deputy Speaker.<\/p>\n

In his acceptance speech, the newly-elected Speaker thanked his colleagues for the confidence reposed on him and promised not to fail them.<\/p>\n

Ayuba assured fellow members that his leadership will not discriminate based on tribe, religious, gender or political affiliations.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs speaker of this noble assembly, I promise to serve with the fear of God, trust and humility,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ninth Plateau State House of Assembly has elected Hon. Abok Ayuba, a 33-year-old 500-level student of Law at the University of Jos, as its speaker. Ayuba was elected on Monday at the Assembly\u2019s inaugural sitting. The newly-elected Speaker, who represents Jos East constituency, was unanimously elected by members without subjecting it through electoral process. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125231,"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":[3,4],"tags":[12418],"class_list":["post-125230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-plateau-state-house-of-assembly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125230","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=125230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}