{"id":11030,"date":"2019-06-03T12:41:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11030"},"modified":"2019-06-03T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:41:14","slug":"9th-assembly-pdp-caucus-speaks-on-being-offered-deputy-senate-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/9th-assembly-pdp-caucus-speaks-on-being-offered-deputy-senate-presidency","title":{"rendered":"9th Assembly: PDP caucus speaks on being offered Deputy Senate Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate caucus of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has denied insinuations that the Deputy Senate President position for the next Assembly, was being offered to members of the party.<\/p>\n<p>PDP senators said no meeting has been held to cede the position to the main opposition party.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson of the PDP Senate Caucus, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South), told Vanguard that the caucus was together and would work in unison.<\/p>\n<p>According to Abaribe, there was nothing wrong with senators of the party supporting some of the aspirants to the position of Senate President individually.<\/p>\n<p>Abaribe said, \u201cLawan said he was expecting other PDP senators to endorse him after Nwaoboshi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has the right to be talking with some people. What I know is that we have not taken any decision at the caucus level on what to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019PDP is still together; we are not going anywhere, we will work together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne or two members may have taken a decision to support different aspirants, they have the right, this is democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have all agreed that we are not going anywhere, we have not met with any aspirant for offer of the position of Deputy Senate President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoever that is doing or saying anything is expressing his personal rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should not be taken to be the position of the party and we cannot stop anybody from exercising their freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate caucus of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has denied insinuations that the Deputy Senate President position for the next Assembly, was being offered to members of the party. PDP senators said no meeting has been held to cede the position to the main opposition party. Spokesperson of the PDP Senate Caucus, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[287,648,65,53],"class_list":["post-11030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-assembly","tag-lawan","tag-pdp","tag-senate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>9th Assembly: PDP caucus speaks on being offered Deputy Senate Presidency - Nigeria<\/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:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/9th-assembly-pdp-caucus-speaks-on-being-offered-deputy-senate-presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"9th Assembly: PDP caucus speaks on being offered Deputy Senate Presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Senate caucus of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has denied insinuations that the Deputy Senate President position for the next Assembly, was being offered to members of the party. 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