{"id":12787,"date":"2018-10-17T20:49:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12787"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:49:34","slug":"senator-demands-written-and-verbal-apology-for-embarassment-on-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12787","title":{"rendered":"Senator Akpabio demands written and verbal apology for embarassment on floor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate on Wednesday had a rowdy session as they argued about sitting arrangement.
\nThe argument ensued when the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, refused to allow former Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, to contribute to a Point of Order raised by Senator Bassey Akpan.
\nAkpan had raised a point of order accusing the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom of plotting to cause chaos in the 2019 general election.
\nSaraki refused to acknowledge Akpabio\u2019s contribution, saying he would not be allowed to speak unless he did so from his seat.
\nHe said, \u201cFormer Minority Leader, you know you cannot speak from there. Go to your seat, when you get to your seat, I will recognise you,\u201d he said.
\nThe Leader of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, was, however, not comfortable with Saraki\u2019s position, and stood up to defend Akpabio.
\nHe said, \u201cAs it stands today in this chamber, there is no organised sitting arrangement. If he decides to sit there, let him.
\n\u201cThere is no microphone there. Let us not take the\u00a0Panadol\u00a0for his headache. Let me advise that even though we have only six, seven months to go, let\u2019s do what is right.\u201d
\nIn the course of his comment, the lawmakers began to talk at random, thereby throwing the chamber into a rowdy session.
\nThe lawmakers refused to calm down in spite of Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu\u2019s intervention.
\nThe situation, however, became relatively calm when Akpabio stood up to explain that the seat was allocated to him by the Clerk of the Senate.
\n\u201cThe seat was allocated to me by the Clerk and I expect that you were notified. The embarrassment I got today was uncalled for.
\n“\u201cI demand an apology, not just written, but verbal too,\u201d Akpabio said.
\nBy NAN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senate on Wednesday had a rowdy session as they argued about sitting arrangement. The argument ensued when the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, refused to allow former Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, to contribute to a Point of Order raised by Senator Bassey Akpan. Akpan had raised a point of order accusing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}