{"id":145789,"date":"2019-08-22T12:58:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T11:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145789"},"modified":"2019-08-22T12:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T11:58:30","slug":"what-akpabio-said-after-buhari-appointed-him-minister-of-niger-delta-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145789","title":{"rendered":"What Akpabio said after Buhari appointed him Minister of Niger Delta Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The newly-appointed Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday, promised to make a positive impact in his new portfolio.<\/p>\n

Akpabio made the pledge at the reception ceremony, to usher him into the ministry on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love leaving marks wherever I visit, it is a great privilege on our part being selected to work with you, to see how we can turn around the fortunes of the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course you know why this ministry was set up, specifically that region would have been like a golden egg but has been neglected for long.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf not because we\u2019re just coming for the first time, I would have asked for your achievements so far, especially in the areas of construction of bridges, employment and others.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a Niger Delta person, I will ensure that things are better for further and effective development of the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the President is looking forward to commissioning a lot of projects in the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe the Niger Delta region and its people, they are looking forward to the alleviation of poverty in their lives and transformation of infrastructure,\u201d Akpabio said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newly-appointed Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday, promised to make a positive impact in his new portfolio. Akpabio made the pledge at the reception ceremony, to usher him into the ministry on Wednesday in Abuja. \u201cI love leaving marks wherever I visit, it is a great privilege on our part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140856,"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":[],"class_list":["post-145789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145789","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=145789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}