{"id":88194,"date":"2023-05-17T09:10:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T08:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio"},"modified":"2023-05-17T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T10:00:18","slug":"im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m facing war to become Senate President \u2013 Akpabio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Senate President aspirant for the 10th National Assembly, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has appealed for prayers, saying there is war out there for him.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio stated this during his speech when he met with the APC Non-Serving Senators Group in Abuja on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He also promised that the 10th Senate would collaborate with the President-elect, Bola Tinubu to pay off the nation\u2019s debts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited that God is keeping all of you alive. This is a family and I am very proud to belong to this family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to also appeal that you not only endorse us but support us with your prayers because what I am seeing out there is that it is a war. But I see it as a storm in a teacup,\u201d Akpabio said.<\/p>\n<p>The APC has zoned the Senate Presidency to Akpabio, Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin (Kano), House of Representatives Speaker Abass Tajudeen (Kaduna) and Deputy Speaker Ben Kalu (Abia).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Senate President aspirant for the 10th National Assembly, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has appealed for prayers, saying there is war out there for him. Akpabio stated this during his speech when he met with the APC Non-Serving Senators Group in Abuja on Tuesday. He also promised that the 10th Senate would collaborate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":88193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,621,254,702,4005],"class_list":["post-88194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-akpabio","tag-nigeria","tag-senate-president","tag-war"],"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>I\u2019m facing war to become Senate President \u2013 Akpabio - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Senate President aspirant for the 10th National Assembly, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has appealed for prayers, saying ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I\u2019m facing war to become Senate President \u2013 Akpabio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Senate President aspirant for the 10th National Assembly, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has appealed for prayers, saying ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-17T08:10:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-17T10:00:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684302475.90.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/policy\/im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"I\u2019m facing war to become Senate President \u2013 Akpabio\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-17T08:10:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-17T10:00:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio\"},\"wordCount\":180,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/05\/postQueueImg_1684302475.90.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Akpabio\",\"Nigeria\",\"senate president\",\"War\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-facing-war-to-become-senate-president-akpabio\",\"name\":\"I\u2019m facing war to become Senate President \u2013 Akpabio - 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