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BREAKING: Senate Gets New Minority Leader, Whip| SEE NAMES

Faith Ukanwa

Jun 21, 2022

The vacuum created at the National Assembly, owing to the resignation of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe as the Senate minority leader has been occupied.

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Abaribe at the resumption of plenary, had informed the House of his resignation, owing to his defection from the People's Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.

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The Senate during plenary on Tuesday, announced Abaribe's replacement as Senator Phillip Aduda, the member representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

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Senator Chukwuka Utazi was also named as the Senate Minority Whip to take over Aduda's former position.

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The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, announced the new appointments while reading two separate letters signed by the National Secretary of the PDP, Samuel Anyanwu.

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