{"id":11436,"date":"2019-06-12T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11436"},"modified":"2019-06-12T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:04:42","slug":"omo-agege-under-attack-for-kneeling-to-greet-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/omo-agege-under-attack-for-kneeling-to-greet-buhari","title":{"rendered":"Omo-Agege under attack for kneeling to greet Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted after Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, displayed his respect for President Muhammadu Buhari by kneeling to greet the nation\u2019s leader Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Omo-Agege was at the Presidential Villa with the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, to pay homage after their emergence as principal officers of the Red Chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the entourage were: Presidential Adviser on National Assembly, Ita Enang, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Senator Jubrin Barau among others.<\/p>\n<p>After Lawan shook hands with the President, Omo-Agege did same and then knelt as he exchanged pleasantries with Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting in a tweet on Wednesday, Omokri wondered how Nigerians can expect the 9th National Assembly to stand up to Buhari with Omo-Agege\u2019s disposition, adding that the Legislature was created to check the Executive and not to bow to them.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cWhen we have a Deputy Senate President KNEELING DOWN to greet @MBuhari, how can we expect the 9th National Assembly to STAND UP to him? The Legislature was created to CHECK the Executive, not to BOW to them. Kneel to God and parents only. Very sad! #FreeLeahSharibu #RenosDarts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted after Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, displayed his respect for President Muhammadu Buhari by kneeling to greet the nation\u2019s leader Tuesday night. Omo-Agege was at the Presidential Villa with the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, to pay homage after their emergence as principal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":11437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,42,648,568],"class_list":["post-11436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-goodluck-jonathan","tag-lawan","tag-omokri"],"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>Omo-Agege under attack for kneeling to greet Buhari - 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\/omo-agege-under-attack-for-kneeling-to-greet-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Omo-Agege under attack for kneeling to greet Buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted after Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. 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