{"id":190857,"date":"2020-02-03T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=190857"},"modified":"2020-02-03T23:21:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T22:21:37","slug":"buhari-meets-senate-president-speaker-in-closed-door-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=190857","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Meets Senate President, Speaker In Closed-door Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><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=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/02\/Buhari-Meets-Senate-President-Speaker-In-Closed-door-Meeting.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has met with the leadership of the National Assembly, a report by PUNCH said.<br \/>\nThe President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, walked into the venue of the meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, at 3:04pm.<br \/>\nThe agenda of the closed-door meeting was not disclosed officially.<br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, it was gathered from credible National Assembly sources that Lawan and Gbajabiamila went to formally hand over last week\u2019s resolutions of both chambers on the state of insecurity in the country to Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that last week, the House had urged the President to sack the service chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>On its part, the Senate sought the declaration of emergency on insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate President and the Speaker are here to present the resolutions to Mr President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also will hear Mr President\u2019s answers to take to their colleagues in the chambers on Tuesday (tomorrow)\u201d, a National Assembly official said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has met with the leadership of the National Assembly, a report by PUNCH said. The President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, walked into the venue of the meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, at 3:04pm. The agenda of the closed-door meeting was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,41,8017],"class_list":["post-190857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-femi-gbajabiamila"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190857","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=190857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}