{"id":3385,"date":"2023-10-18T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:04:03","slug":"senate-appoints-new-deputy-majority-leader-whip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/10\/18\/senate-appoints-new-deputy-majority-leader-whip\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Appoints New Deputy Majority Leader, Whip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has appointed the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator representing Kwara South, Lola Ashiru, as the new Deputy Majority Leader.<\/p>\n<p>The upper legislative chamber also appointed the Senator representing Ebonyi North Senatorial District, Nwebonyi Peter Onyeka, as the new Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced the new appointments during plenary on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Senator Ashiru replaces Senator David Umahi, who quit the Senate to pick up a ministerial appointment, while Senator Onyeka, who is also an APC member, replaces Ashiru, who was formerly the Deputy Chief Whip.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_ads \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<p>Ashiru, who was the former Deputy Chief Whip, was elevated to the position of Deputy Senate Leader, which became vacant following Umahi\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jnews_inline_related_post_wrapper left\">\n<div class=\"jnews_inline_related_post\">\n<div class=\"jeg_postblock_21 jeg_postblock jeg_module_hook jeg_pagination_nextprev jeg_col_2o3 jnews_module_165483_0_652fcfdd64ee1 \" data-unique=\"jnews_module_165483_0_652fcfdd64ee1\">\n<div class=\"jeg_block_heading jeg_block_heading_2 jeg_subcat_right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3386\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/senate-300x182.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/senate-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/senate-1024x622.png 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/senate-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/senate.png 1316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has appointed the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator representing Kwara South, Lola Ashiru, as the new Deputy Majority Leader. The upper legislative chamber also appointed the Senator representing Ebonyi North Senatorial District, Nwebonyi Peter Onyeka, as the new Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate. Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced the new appointments during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3387,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}