{"id":64685,"date":"2023-06-13T09:05:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T09:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64685"},"modified":"2023-06-13T09:05:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T09:05:32","slug":"akpabio-beats-yari-to-become-senate-president-barau-returned-unopposed-as-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64685","title":{"rendered":"Akpabio beats Yari to become Senate President, Barau returned unopposed as deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After hours of negotiations and horse-trading, former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Minister of Niger Delta Development and Senator representing Akwa Ibom South-West District, Godswill Akpabio, has emerged the new Senate President.<\/p>\n<p>He defeated former Zamfara State Governor and Zamfara West Senatorial District, Senator-elect Abdul\u2019aziz Yari.<\/p>\n<p>Senator-elect Jibrin Barau from Kano State was elected unopposed at exactly 10.00 a.m. His swearing-in was on as of press time.<\/p>\n<p>In the House of Representatives, voting was still on, though Representative Tajudeen Abbas appeared to be leading.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio had met behind closed doors meeting with former Senate Majority Whip, Senators Orji Kalu and Osita Izunaso, from the South-East geopolitical zone, who showed interest in the exalted office, but appeared to have stepped down for Akpabio.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio polled 63 votes to defeat Yari 46.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hours of negotiations and horse-trading, former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Minister of Niger Delta Development and Senator representing Akwa Ibom South-West District, Godswill Akpabio, has emerged the new Senate President. He defeated former Zamfara State Governor and Zamfara West Senatorial District, Senator-elect Abdul\u2019aziz Yari. Senator-elect Jibrin Barau from Kano State was elected unopposed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7,8],"tags":[22,4020,4451],"class_list":["post-64685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","category-news","category-politics","tag-akpabio","tag-barau","tag-yari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64685","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=64685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}