{"id":19253,"date":"2019-07-02T13:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=19253"},"modified":"2019-07-02T13:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:10:29","slug":"senate-gets-other-principal-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=19253","title":{"rendered":"Senate gets other principal officers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate now has the full complement of its principal officers with the the announcement of the list by its President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan, this Tuesday. Lawan and Ovie Omo-Agege (Deputy Senate President) were elected three weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator Abdullahi Yahaya is Senate Leader and Ajayi Boroffice is his deputy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orji Uzor Kalu is announced as the Chief Whip while Abdullahi Sabi is the Deputy Chief Whip.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, the Senate President announced Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe as the Minority Leader and Phillip Aduda as Minority Whip.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emmanuel Bwacha is the deputy minority leader while Sahabi Yau is the Deputy Minority Whip.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An ad hoc committee was constituted to prepare the legislative agenda of the Upper House within two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LAWAN-senate-President-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19255\"\/><figcaption>President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmed Lawan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate now has the full complement of its principal officers with the the announcement of the list by its President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan, this Tuesday. Lawan and Ovie Omo-Agege (Deputy Senate President) were elected three weeks ago. Senator Abdullahi Yahaya is Senate Leader and Ajayi Boroffice is his deputy. Orji Uzor Kalu is announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19253","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=19253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}