{"id":1054,"date":"2019-07-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/senate-extends-sen-elisha-abbos-probe-by-one-week\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T02:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:37:58","slug":"senate-extends-sen-elisha-abbos-probe-by-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/senate-extends-sen-elisha-abbos-probe-by-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Extends Sen. Elisha Abbo\u2019s Probe by One Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has granted a one-week extension to its Ad hoc Committee investigating the propriety of Senator Elisha Abbo\u2019s (PDP: Adamawa) actions after a video of the lawmaker assaulting a woman received public out-lash.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee led by Senator Sam Egwu (PDP: Ebonyi) and 6 other Members including Mrs Remi Tinubu, (APC:Lagos) , who chaired the Women Affairs Committee in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> Assembly are expected to submit their report on 24 July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old Senator Abbo, who is the youngest serving Senator in the 9<sup>th<\/sup> National Assembly, is serving his first term in the National Assembly. He took over the seat previously occupied by Senator Binta Masi Garba; one of the eight female Senators in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> National Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has granted a one-week extension to its Ad hoc Committee investigating the propriety of Senator Elisha Abbo\u2019s (PDP: Adamawa) actions after a video of the lawmaker assaulting a woman received public out-lash. The Committee led by Senator Sam Egwu (PDP: Ebonyi) and 6 other Members including Mrs Remi Tinubu, (APC:Lagos) , who chaired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}