{"id":428972,"date":"2011-05-24T00:11:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/24\/senators-reps-scramble-for-principal-offices\/"},"modified":"2011-05-24T00:11:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:11:39","slug":"senators-reps-scramble-for-principal-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/24\/senators-reps-scramble-for-principal-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators, Reps scramble for principal offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"55\">\n<p><strong>\u00a0By EMMANUEL\u00a0 AZIKEN,<\/strong> Political Editor<\/p>\n<p>LAGOS-With Senator David Mark a near shoo-in next month\u2019s Senate President contest, Senators-elect have shifted ground to the contest for other leadership positions with the office of Senate Leader emerging as the hottest attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Expectedly, the contest for Senate Leader has already attracted geo-political interest with the influential Northern Senators\u2019 Forum demanding that the post originally zoned by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the South-West be given to the North.<\/p>\n<p>NSF, which is expected to today declare its backing for Senator Mark, Vanguard learnt, would also use the declaration to demand for Senate Leader.<\/p>\n<p>Moslem senators are demanding that in return for the election of Senators David Mark and Ike Ekweremadu as the presiding officers of the Senate, that the next position of Senate Leader should be given to a Muslim. Mark is a Roman Catholic Christian while Ekweremadu is an Anglican Christian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/05\/senators-reps-scramble-for-principal-offices\/\" title=\"Senators, Reps scramble for principal offices\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senators, Reps scramble for principal offices<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u00a0By EMMANUEL\u00a0 AZIKEN, Political Editor LAGOS-With Senator David Mark a near shoo-in next month\u2019s Senate President contest, Senators-elect have shifted ground to the contest for other leadership positions with the office of Senate Leader emerging as the hottest attraction. Expectedly, the contest for Senate Leader has already attracted geo-political interest with the influential Northern Senators\u2019 Forum demanding that the post originally zoned by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the South-West be given to the North. NSF, which is expected to today declare its backing for Senator Mark, Vanguard learnt, would also use the declaration to demand for Senate Leader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":403228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-428972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senators, Reps scramble for principal offices - Ghanamma.com<\/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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/24\/senators-reps-scramble-for-principal-offices\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Senators, Reps scramble for principal offices - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"\u00a0By EMMANUEL\u00a0 AZIKEN, Political Editor LAGOS-With Senator David Mark a near shoo-in next month\u2019s Senate President contest, Senators-elect have shifted ground to the contest for other leadership positions with the office of Senate Leader emerging as the hottest attraction. 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