{"id":8088,"date":"2019-04-09T11:25:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T11:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=8088"},"modified":"2019-04-09T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T11:25:52","slug":"senate-presidency-why-i-visited-osinbajo-at-aso-villa-ndume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-presidency-why-i-visited-osinbajo-at-aso-villa-ndume","title":{"rendered":"Senate Presidency: Why I visited Osinbajo at Aso Villa \u2013 Ndume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Ndume, a former Senate Leader, has given reason for his meeting with the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo.<\/p>\n<p>Ndume disclosed that his meeting with Osinbajo was centred around humanitarian issues in his state, Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker from Borno State had met with the Vice President behind closed-doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by State House Correspondents if he would step down for Ahmed Lawan, he asked rhetorically: \u201cMe?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the time to talk now because I am still holding consultation,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He further declined to speak further on the Senate Presidency race.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ndume, while speaking with The Nation, disclosed that he never discussed his ambition with Osinbajo.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ndume: \u201cMy visit to the vice president has nothing to do with my ambition. I did not discuss any political issue with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vice president has been deeply concerned on the challenges in Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI normally get in touch with him because of humanitarian issues in our state. This was what I went to discuss with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not talk about my aspiration to be the next President of the Senate and the vice president also didn\u2019t raise it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Ndume, a former Senate Leader, has given reason for his meeting with the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. Ndume disclosed that his meeting with Osinbajo was centred around humanitarian issues in his state, Borno State. The lawmaker from Borno State had met with the Vice President behind closed-doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":8094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[338,158,53,40],"class_list":["post-8088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-meeting","tag-presidency","tag-senate","tag-vice-president-yemi-osinbajo"],"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>Senate Presidency: Why I visited Osinbajo at Aso Villa \u2013 Ndume - 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\/senate-presidency-why-i-visited-osinbajo-at-aso-villa-ndume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate Presidency: Why I visited Osinbajo at Aso Villa \u2013 Ndume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ali Ndume, a former Senate Leader, has given reason for his meeting with the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. 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