{"id":125827,"date":"2019-06-12T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T08:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125827"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T09:00:37","slug":"9th-assembly-why-apc-shouldnt-see-my-contesting-against-lawan-as-rebellion-ndume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=125827","title":{"rendered":"9th Assembly: Why APC shouldn’t see my contesting against Lawan as rebellion – Ndume"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Senator Ali Ndume representing Borno South senatorial district, who contested for the office of the 9th Senate President without success, has pledged to work with the newly-elected Senate President, Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan.<\/p>\n

Speaking immediately after the election which he lost on Tuesday, he explained that he will work with Lawan in the interest of the country.<\/p>\n

He described Lawan as a well experienced lawmaker who was four years ahead of him, adding that he happily contested the election which he believes was in tandem with democracy.<\/p>\n

Ndume expressed optimism that the ruling APC would not see his action as a rebellion, but as a way of deepening democracy, asserting that what he did made the election of the Senate President credible.<\/p>\n

\u201cAhmed Lawan is my brother who is well experienced having been here four years ahead of me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will give him all the necessary supports. I insisted on contesting against him in order to deepen democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope the party would agree with me that what I did was in the interest of democracy and I do know that power belongs to God. It\u2019s God\u2019s will that my colleague becomes the President.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will do all I can with others for him to succeed because his success is our success.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senator Ali Ndume representing Borno South senatorial district, who contested for the office of the 9th Senate President without success, has pledged to work with the newly-elected Senate President, Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan. Speaking immediately after the election which he lost on Tuesday, he explained that he will work with Lawan in the interest of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125828,"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":[2106,8069],"class_list":["post-125827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ahmed-lawan","tag-ali-ndume"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125827","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=125827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}