{"id":50985,"date":"2018-10-10T20:34:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=50985"},"modified":"2018-10-10T20:34:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:34:20","slug":"senate-swears-in-apc-lawmaker-who-vowed-to-make-buhari-life-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=50985","title":{"rendered":"Senate Swears In APC Lawmaker Who Vowed To Make Buhari Life President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%2269623%22,%22view_mode%22:%22embedded%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22full%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_caption%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_attribution%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_align%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22center%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22,%22link_text%22:null%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Senate-Swears-In-APC-Lawmaker-Who-Vowed-To-Make-Buhari-Life-President.jpg\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"><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>Honourable Gumau Yahaya, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate who won the Bauchi South Senatorial District bye-election held in August, has been sworn in as a senator.<\/p>\n<p>He took the oath of office alongside Ahmad Babba Kaita, also of the APC, representing Katsina North, at the Senate&#8217;s plenary session on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>During his campaign, Gumau had said he would see to the amendment of the Constitution to ensure that President Muhammadu Buhari remains President for life.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old said: \u201cBy God\u2019s grace, we will amend Nigeria\u2019s Constitution to allow Buhari to be President for the remaining years of his life. He will only cease to be President when God takes his life. Obasanjo tried all his best for the constitution to be amended to allow him go for a third term, but God didn\u2019t approve of it because of its lack of sincerity. What is now needed in Nigeria is to protect Buhari\u2019s interest and that is what we will do.\u201d<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col block-story-object block-story-object-link block-story-object-link-story\" about=\"\/2018\/08\/11\/my-only-mission-senate-making-buhari-life-president-says-apc-candidate\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-content-body\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"node node-story node-promoted node-sticky taxonomy-politics view-mode-embedded_link block-module block-module-small block-module-story\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-module-image block-module-image-scale-to-fit\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><span class=\"image-background-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1539185518_264_Senate-Swears-In-APC-Lawmaker-Who-Vowed-To-Make-Buhari-Life-President.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gumau is a graduate of the University of Maiduguri and currently represents Toro Federal Constituency of Bauchi State at the House of Representatives.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honourable Gumau Yahaya, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate who won the Bauchi South Senatorial District bye-election held in August, has been sworn in as a senator. He took the oath of office alongside Ahmad Babba Kaita, also of the APC, representing Katsina North, at the Senate&#8217;s plenary session on Wednesday. During his campaign, Gumau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50986,"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":[3,4],"tags":[6001],"class_list":["post-50985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-yahaya-gumau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50985","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=50985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}