{"id":314794,"date":"2021-02-12T06:49:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T05:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=314794"},"modified":"2021-02-12T06:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T05:54:57","slug":"sec-pdp-senators-back-down-after-accusing-buhari-of-replacing-uduk-with-yuguda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=314794","title":{"rendered":"SEC: PDP senators back down after accusing Buhari of replacing Uduk with Yuguda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators who challenged President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s nomination of Lamido Yuguda as the Director-General of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have withdrawn their petition.<br \/>\nSenator Ayo Akinyelure, Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, made the disclosure at plenary on Thursday.<br \/>\nAkwa Ibom Senators, Bassey Akpan, Christopher Ekpenyong, and Akon Eyakenyi, had stated that Mrs Mary Uduk, an indigene of Akwa-Ibom should had been nominated for the position.<br \/>\nSenator Sam Egwu (PDP \u2013 Ebonyi) urged the federal government to consider the state in future appointments.<br \/>\nSenator Adamu Bulkachuwa (APC \u2013 Bauchi) said the consideration of Akinyelure\u2019s committee report was unnecessary as the petitioners had withdrawn their petition.<br \/>\nSenate President Ahmad Lawan replied that the adoption followed procedure.<br \/>\nLawan said it was mandatory for the committee to submit its report despite of the withdrawal of the petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators who challenged President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s nomination of Lamido Yuguda as the Director-General of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have withdrawn their petition. Senator Ayo Akinyelure, Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, made the disclosure at plenary on Thursday. Akwa Ibom Senators, Bassey Akpan, Christopher Ekpenyong, and Akon Eyakenyi, had stated that [&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":[2658,41,254,351],"class_list":["post-314794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-sec","tag-senate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314794","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=314794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}