{"id":714,"date":"2018-05-14T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2018-05-14T10:42:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:42:29","slug":"sarakis-appeal-wont-stop-my-resumption-says-omo-agege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"Saraki\u2019s appeal won\u2019t stop my resumption, says Omo-Agege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmaker representing Delta\u00a0\u00a0 Central Senatorial District, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said despite the appeal filed by the Senate and its President, Bukola Saraki, against the Federal High Court\u2019s judgment nullifying his suspension, he will still resume legislative duties.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Senate and Saraki have only applied for a stay of execution at the Court of Appeal which has not been granted.<\/p>\n<p>Omo-Agege pointed out that the lower court made a declaratory judgment which had an immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused Saraki of seeking the relief for a stay of execution from a court of law which he had allegedly ignored and gone ahead to approve his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate had on April 12, 2018, suspended Omo-Agege for 90 legislative days for dragging the chamber to court over the amendment to the Electoral Act 2010, which seeks to reshuffle the sequence of polls during a general election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmaker representing Delta\u00a0\u00a0 Central Senatorial District, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said despite the appeal filed by the Senate and its President, Bukola Saraki, against the Federal High Court\u2019s judgment &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}