{"id":67211,"date":"2019-06-11T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=67211"},"modified":"2019-06-11T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:29:39","slug":"omo-agege-elected-deputy-senate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/omo-agege-elected-deputy-senate-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Omo-Agege Elected Deputy Senate President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1636059426744026818\" data-legacy-message-id=\"16b473616281c6c2\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":q6\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":q7\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Delta Central, has been elected as the Deputy<br \/>\nSenate President after defeating former Deputy Senate President Ike<br \/>\nEkweremadu<\/p>\n<p>Mr Omo-Agege polled 68 votes while Mr Ekweremadu garnered 37. There was<br \/>\none void vote.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)<br \/>\nannounced its choices of candidates for Deputy Senate President and<br \/>\nDeputy Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The party adopted Mr Omo-Agege as Deputy Senate President, and Idris<br \/>\nWase, representing Wase Federal Constituency, for Deputy Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was communicated to journalists in a statement signed by<br \/>\nthe party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Working Committee (NWC) of APC held emergency meetings<br \/>\nSaturday 8 and Sunday 9 of June 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ajx\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gA gt acV\">\n<div class=\"gB xu\">\n<div class=\"ip iq\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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>Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Delta Central, has been elected as the Deputy Senate President after defeating former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu Mr Omo-Agege polled 68 votes while Mr Ekweremadu garnered&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":67212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67211","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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