{"id":19480,"date":"2019-12-29T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=19480"},"modified":"2019-12-29T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T15:09:50","slug":"party-wont-determine-what-senate-will-do-lawan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/party-wont-determine-what-senate-will-do-lawan","title":{"rendered":"Party won\u2019t determine what Senate will do \u2013 Lawan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, has pledged to run non-partisan leadership in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that Lawan stated this on Saturday in Damaturu, Yobe State capital at a reception in his honour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can take it upon myself to run a non-partisan Senate, where party does not determine what we do. What we do could be determined by the interest of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery Nigerian, regardless of his political party, wants to see an economy that works and also wants to live in peace,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lawan appealed for the support of Nigerians to the lawmakers to enable them achieve success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to use this opportunity to appeal to Nigerians to continue to support us in the National Assembly; to advise us and to guide us where we are wrong or where we are about to be wrong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lawan commended his colleagues for their cooperation and being focused in discharging their duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, has pledged to run non-partisan leadership in the National Assembly. NAN reports that Lawan stated this on Saturday in Damaturu, Yobe State capital at a reception in his honour. \u201cI can take it upon myself to run a non-partisan Senate, where party does not determine what we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":11798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[886,1050],"class_list":["post-19480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-ahmad-lawan","tag-yobe-state"],"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>Party won\u2019t determine what Senate will do \u2013 Lawan - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, has pledged to run non-partisan leadership in the National Assembly.NAN reports that Lawan\" \/>\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\/party-wont-determine-what-senate-will-do-lawan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Party won\u2019t determine what Senate will do \u2013 Lawan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, has pledged to run non-partisan leadership in the National Assembly.NAN reports that Lawan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/party-wont-determine-what-senate-will-do-lawan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-29T15:09:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/06\/Senate-President-Ahmed-Lawan.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"697\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/party-wont-determine-what-senate-will-do-lawan#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/party-wont-determine-what-senate-will-do-lawan\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Party won\u2019t determine what Senate will do \u2013 Lawan\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-29T15:09:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/party-wont-determine-what-senate-will-do-lawan\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/party-wont-determine-what-senate-will-do-lawan#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/06\/Senate-President-Ahmed-Lawan.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ahmad Lawan\",\"Yobe state\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/party-wont-determine-what-senate-will-do-lawan#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/party-wont-determine-what-senate-will-do-lawan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/party-wont-determine-what-senate-will-do-lawan\",\"name\":\"Party won\u2019t determine what Senate will do \u2013 Lawan - 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