{"id":24562,"date":"2024-03-29T19:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T19:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/budget-padding-senate-to-review-ningis-suspension-akpabio\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T19:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T19:02:51","slug":"budget-padding-senate-to-review-ningis-suspension-akpabio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/budget-padding-senate-to-review-ningis-suspension-akpabio\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget padding: Senate to review Ningi\u2019s suspension \u2013 Akpabio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio has revealed that the Senate is set to recall Senator Abdul Ningi from his three-month suspension.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed this while answering questions from reporters on arrival from the Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio said the Senate will soon review the three-month suspension it slammed on Ningi for claiming that the 2024 budget was allegedly padded with the sum of N3.7 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that Ningi had on Thursday, in a letter written by his counsel, Femi Falana SAN, requested reinstatement to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio pointed out that even though he had not seen the letter, the matter would be resolved like a family affair.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIt is a parliamentary decision. I have not seen the letter yet. But Senator Ningi is one of us. I mean, what is suspension?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Budget padding: Senate to review Ningi\u2019s suspension \u2013 Akpabio<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio has revealed that the Senate is set to recall Senator Abdul Ningi from his three-month suspension.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4354,15,12118,3],"tags":[93,180,5651,249],"class_list":["post-24562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-akpabio","category-news","category-ningi","category-politics","tag-akpabio","tag-news","tag-ningi","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}