{"id":3233,"date":"2023-11-21T13:03:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/uproar-in-senate-over-minority-leadership-appointments\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T13:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:03:58","slug":"uproar-in-senate-over-minority-leadership-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/uproar-in-senate-over-minority-leadership-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Uproar in senate over minority leadership appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There was a mild drama in the Senate on Tuesday over the emergence of Benue South Senator, Abba Morro as the Senate Minority Leader and Enugu West Senator, Osita Ngwu as Minority Whip.<\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members replaced Simon Mwadkwon, senator representing Plateau north; and Darlington Nwokocha, senator representing Abia central, following their sack by the Court.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after Akpabio finished reading the announcements said to be from the minority caucus, an altercation ensued on the floor of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Labour Party Senator from Anambra North, Tony Nwoye, condemned Akpabio\u2019s decision to choose leaders for the senators, stressing that it was unfair.<\/p>\n<p>Yelling at Akpabio, Nwoye said: \u201cAre we your slaves? Why will the senate president be picking leaders for us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have done your worst. You have pushed us to the wall. Meaning what? It is unfair. It is not about me, it is about the institution of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After some senators pacified Nwoye, Akpabio explained that the two minority leaders had shown the signatories of the senators who agreed with the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinority put your house in order first,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe senate president can only work with what is before me. You have senator Abaribe and Aliero, their names are not here,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Uproar in senate over minority leadership appointments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a mild drama in the Senate on Tuesday over the emergence of Benue South Senator, Abba Morro as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,622],"tags":[180,11],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-senate","tag-news","tag-senate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Uproar in senate over minority leadership appointments - Niger Delta News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/uproar-in-senate-over-minority-leadership-appointments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Uproar in senate over minority leadership appointments - 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