{"id":125612,"date":"2019-06-11T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125612"},"modified":"2019-06-11T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:38:51","slug":"how-fani-kayode-reacted-to-ahmed-lawans-emergence-as-senate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125612","title":{"rendered":"How Fani-Kayode reacted to Ahmed Lawan&#8217;s emergence as Senate President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Fani-Kayode-reacts-to-presidencys-comment-that-Miyetti-Allah-is-like-Afenifere-Ohanaeze.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation minister, has congratulated Senator Ahmed Lawan from Yobe North on his emergence as the Senate President.<\/p>\n<p>Lawan Tuesday was declared winner of the election to the office of the Senate Presidency of the 9th National Assembly after he polled the highest number of votes.<\/p>\n<p>This followed a hitch-free election on Tuesday at the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The election, which was presided by Mohammed Sanni-Omolori, saw the Yobe Senator scoring 79 votes after ballots sorting.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting in a tweet, Fani-Kayode wrote: \u201cCongratulations to Senator Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan who has emerged as Nigeria\u2019s Senate President. May God guide you.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation minister, has congratulated Senator Ahmed Lawan from Yobe North on his emergence as the Senate President. Lawan Tuesday was declared winner of the election to the office of the Senate Presidency of the 9th National Assembly after he polled the highest number of votes. This followed a hitch-free election on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114810,"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":[5977,5604],"class_list":["post-125612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ahmad-lawal","tag-femi-fani-kayode"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125612","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=125612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}