{"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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","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=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}