{"id":127072,"date":"2019-06-16T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T09:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127072"},"modified":"2019-06-16T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T09:58:19","slug":"ekweremadu-reacts-to-emergence-of-abaribe-other-pdp-members-as-senate-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127072","title":{"rendered":"Ekweremadu reacts to emergence of Abaribe, other PDP members as Senate officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ekweremadu\u2019s-election-What-happened-at-Tribunal-on-Wednesday.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has congratulated the minority principal officers of the 9th Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The Enugu-born politician expressed confidence in the ability of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members to be a formidable opposition in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted at the weekend: \u201cI heartily congratulate my brother, friend, and ally, Distinguished Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe on his emergence as the Minority Leader of the 9th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also congratulate my brothers, Senators Emmanuel Bwacha, Philip Aduda, and Clifford Ordia on their emergence as Deputy Minority Leader, Minority Whip, Deputy Minority Whip, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are honours well deserved. With this, the PDP is good to go as a formidable opposition in the Senate and the polity as a whole as we all work together to strengthen our party and democracy for the good governance and development of Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ekweremadu had lost his bid to retain his former position to incumbent DSP, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has congratulated the minority principal officers of the 9th Senate. The Enugu-born politician expressed confidence in the ability of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members to be a formidable opposition in the Senate. He tweeted at the weekend: \u201cI heartily congratulate my brother, friend, and ally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117548,"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":[7543,5602],"class_list":["post-127072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-eyinnaya-abaribe","tag-ike-ekweremadu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127072","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=127072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}