{"id":125649,"date":"2019-06-11T18:17:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125649"},"modified":"2019-06-11T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:18:08","slug":"9th-assembly-omo-agege-takes-oath-of-office-as-deputy-senate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125649","title":{"rendered":"9th Assembly: Omo-Agege takes oath of office as Deputy Senate President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9th-Assembly-APC-announces-preferred-candidate-for-Deputy-Senate-Presidency-Deputy-Speakership.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Senator Ovie Omo-Agege representing Delta Central Senatorial district has taken his oath of office.<\/p>\n<p>Omo-Agege was sworn-in by the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori.<\/p>\n<p>The Delta lawmaker had polled 68 votes to defeat his rival, Senator Ike Ekweremadu who polled 37 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The former Deputy Senate President was surprisingly nominated by Chukwuka Utazi representing Enugu North Senatorial district.<\/p>\n<p>Ekweremadu is of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while Omo-Agege is of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and has been adopted by the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ovie Omo-Agege representing Delta Central Senatorial district has taken his oath of office. Omo-Agege was sworn-in by the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori. The Delta lawmaker had polled 68 votes to defeat his rival, Senator Ike Ekweremadu who polled 37 votes. The former Deputy Senate President was surprisingly nominated by Chukwuka Utazi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125199,"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":[5693],"class_list":["post-125649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ovie-omo-agege"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125649","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=125649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}