{"id":278601,"date":"2015-06-03T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/nass-leadership-tussle-apc-to-meet-senators-elect-rep-members-elect-thursday\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T09:15:00","slug":"nass-leadership-tussle-apc-to-meet-senators-elect-rep-members-elect-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/06\/03\/nass-leadership-tussle-apc-to-meet-senators-elect-rep-members-elect-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"NASS Leadership Tussle: APC To Meet Senators-elect, Rep Members-elect Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-266392\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2015\/06\/c689APC.jpg\" alt=\"APC\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" \/>Amid the heightened tension generated by the scramble for leadership positions in the soon-to-be inaugurated 8<sup>th<\/sup> National Assembly, the leadership of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, has summoned all the federal lawmakers elected on its platform to a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The scramble for Senate Presidency and Speakership positions of the Senate and House of Representatives respectively, has divided the APC as the party has been unsuccessful in speaking with one voice on the contentious matter.<\/p>\n<p>In a last ditch attempt to salvage the situation, the APC leadership is to meet with Senators-elect and members-elect of the House in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It was learnt that the major focus of the meeting is how to seek a peaceful resolution among the various contenders for the various positions in a way that party supremacy would not be jeopardized.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Tuesday, announced that the party \u201cwill hold a crucial meeting with\u00a0all its Senators-elect and House of Representatives members-elect on\u00a0Thursday, the June 4\u00a0at the International Conference Centre in\u00a0Abuja\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the party\u2019s leadership would meet\u00a0with its Senators-elect\u00a0at 10am\u00a0while the meeting with its elected\u00a0members of the House of Representatives was scheduled for\u00a02pm\u00a0on the\u00a0same day at the same venue.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the heightened tension generated by the scramble for leadership positions in the soon-to-be inaugurated 8th National Assembly, the leadership of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, has summoned all the federal lawmakers elected on its platform to a meeting. The scramble for Senate Presidency and Speakership positions of the Senate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}