{"id":32981,"date":"2014-11-09T22:38:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T21:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=32981"},"modified":"2014-11-09T22:38:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T21:38:18","slug":"jonathan-pdp-grant-senator-automatic-ticket-senator-abatemi-usman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/jonathan-pdp-grant-senator-automatic-ticket-senator-abatemi-usman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan, PDP did not grant any Senator automatic ticket, \u00a0Senator Abatemi-Usman"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Senator, Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman has dismissed reports that say \u00a0the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and President Goodluck Jonathan, \u00a0 granted automatic tickets to 40 out of 72 PDP Senators to return to the Senate in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In \u00a0a statement on Sunday \u00a0 he described\u00a0 the report of a \u201charmonized\u201d list of automatic ticket holders, allegedly sponsored by an unnamed Senator, \u00a0as misleading and completely untrue.<\/p>\n<p>Abatemi-Usman, representing Kogi Central, \u00a0 said &#8220;My colleague should be careful as he is becoming known as the purveyor of dubious information. I was at the meeting from the beginning to the end and at no point was any list of Senators drafted.It is unfortunate that a fellow Senator would peddle such rumours and that respected national newspapers would publish the report without checking the facts,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He \u00a0explained that during the meeting, the Senator he suspected to have fielded the false report complained that his Governor was trying to scheme him out of office by installing his political opponents as electoral delegates in his senatorial district.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWhat our national chairman did after some Senators had spoken their minds was to look at the situation in each state, and he said where there are issues they will be resolved amicably. If there was any such list my name definitely would have been included because the chairman said he is not aware that I am having any problem in Kogi Central while speaking on the situation in Kogi State. The chairman said the problem in Kogi West will be resolved. That was the manner in which the Chairman went through all the States. Neither he, nor the President at any time mentioned names of Senators to be granted automatic tickets. It seems my colleague behind the purported report is being mischievous in spreading this story and the public should disregard his claims.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Senator, Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman has dismissed reports that say \u00a0the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and President Goodluck Jonathan, \u00a0 granted automatic tickets to 40 out of 72 PDP Senators to return&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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