{"id":126382,"date":"2019-06-13T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=126382"},"modified":"2019-06-13T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:37:24","slug":"just-in-senate-president-ahmad-lawan-swears-in-okorocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=126382","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, Swears in Okorocha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/JUST-IN-\u2018Declared-Under-Duress\u2019-\u2014-INEC-Strikes-Out-Okorochas-Name-From-Official-Senators-Elect-List.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has sworn in Rochas Okorocha, as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Clerk to the Senate, Nelson Ayewoh, conducted the swearing-in after which Okorocha signed necessary documents.<\/p>\n<p>Okorocha was not inaugurated on Tuesday he was denied his certificate by the Independent National Electoral Commission for harassing the Commission&#8217;s returning officer.<\/p>\n<p>A Federal High Court, however, mandated INEC to issue to the certificate of return.<\/p>\n<p>The former governor will represent the Imo West Senatorial District at the red chamber.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has sworn in Rochas Okorocha, as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Clerk to the Senate, Nelson Ayewoh, conducted the swearing-in after which Okorocha signed necessary documents. Okorocha was not inaugurated on Tuesday he was denied his certificate by the Independent National Electoral Commission for harassing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97404,"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":[8898,719,351],"class_list":["post-126382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ahmad-lawan","tag-okorocha","tag-senate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126382","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=126382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}