{"id":2991,"date":"2023-08-02T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T09:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2023-08-02T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T09:07:38","slug":"senate-confirms-umahi-as-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2023\/08\/02\/senate-confirms-umahi-as-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Umahi as minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Umahi, a former Governor of Ebonyi State and ministerial nominee, was on Tuesday screened and confirmed for appointment by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>He was called to the plenary and just asked to take a bow before the senators.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate resumed screening the remaining 12 ministerial nominees at about 1:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The practice of \u2018Take a bow and Go\u2019 was adopted for most of the nominees, especially former lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi will resign from the Senate as Deputy Majority Leader to take up the appointment as a minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Umahi, a former Governor of Ebonyi State and ministerial nominee, was on Tuesday screened and confirmed for appointment by the Senate. He was called to the plenary and just asked to take a bow before the senators. The Senate resumed screening the remaining 12 ministerial nominees at about 1:00 pm. The practice of \u2018Take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}