{"id":125395,"date":"2019-06-10T23:32:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T22:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125395"},"modified":"2019-06-10T23:37:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T22:37:45","slug":"details-of-apc-governors-meeting-with-oshiomhole-nass-caucus-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125395","title":{"rendered":"Details of APC Governors’ meeting with Oshiomhole, NASS caucus revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as well as the party\u2019s National Working Committee (NWC), today met with the APC caucus of the incoming ninth National Assembly, ahead of Tuesday\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n

The meeting which had several of the Governors in attendance, was to finalize arrangements regarding its zoning of principal offices in the National Assembly and ensure that lawmakers elected on the party\u2019s platform vote as directed.<\/p>\n

Speaking with journalists at the end of the meeting, National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, said the meeting was \u201cbasically to firm up all the conversations and lobbying that have gone on and we have already had a meeting with specific conclusions\u201d.<\/p>\n

Oshiomhole also restated the party\u2019s decision to support Senator Ahmed Lawan and Hon. Gbajabiamila for the office of Senate President and house speakership respectively.<\/p>\n

He also noted that APC will also support Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege and Idris Wase as deputies for both positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have all agreed as a caucus to endorse distinguished Sen. Ahmed Lawan as APC candidate for the presidency of the senate and distinguished Senator Omo-Agege for the deputy presidency of the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll those that have stepped down as a mark of respect for the party leadership are all qualified and they are all unanimous to back the candidates of the party,\u201d Oshiomhole added.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as well as the party\u2019s National Working Committee (NWC), today met with the APC caucus of the incoming ninth National Assembly, ahead of Tuesday\u2019s inauguration. The meeting which had several of the Governors in attendance, was to finalize arrangements regarding its zoning of principal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121299,"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":[],"class_list":["post-125395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125395","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=125395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}