{"id":7152,"date":"2018-02-11T23:10:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T06:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=7152"},"modified":"2018-02-18T22:06:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T05:06:22","slug":"7152-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/7152-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Mockery: No regrets empowering my constituents with frying pans \u2013 Abia Senator Ohuabunwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7153 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2C7F4530-0688-4488-A9E7-3FB464443A42.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2C7F4530-0688-4488-A9E7-3FB464443A42.jpeg 338w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2C7F4530-0688-4488-A9E7-3FB464443A42-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2C7F4530-0688-4488-A9E7-3FB464443A42-100x133.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>Social Media Mockery: No regrets empowering my constituents with frying pans \u2013 Abia Senator Ohuabunwa<\/p>\n<p>The Senator Representing Abia North, Chief Mao Ohuabunwa, has said he has no regrets empowering his constituents with frying pans.<\/p>\n<p>He stated this at the official closing ceremony of the second phase of the Senator Mao Ohuabunwa Skill Acquisition Training Programme in Ohafia in Abia State.<\/p>\n<p>The senator said there was nothing wrong in what he did despite the mockery by Nigerians on the social media.<\/p>\n<p>The senator was the object of mockery by social media users after empowering his constituents with frying pans and other items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no regrets being called \u2018frying pan senator\u2019. Those who call me \u2018frying pan senator\u2019 should have said \u2018skill acquisition and empowerment senator\u2019; that would have been nice.<\/p>\n<p>Frying pan is just an item out of the lot.<\/p>\n<p>What would you give the woman frying bean cake, popularly known as akara?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t give only frying pan; we gave gas cylinders, stoves, spoons and money; that\u2019s what she needs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you be a taxi driver and we give you train? If you are a taxi driver I will give you taxi; I have distributed tricycles, sewing machines and many more. So, I don\u2019t regret nor feel bad when my constituents call me \u2018frying pan senator\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures of Ohuabunwa, 60, who serves on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party went viral on Wednesday where he was seen distributing frying pans to empower his constituents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media Mockery: No regrets empowering my constituents with frying pans \u2013 Abia Senator Ohuabunwa The Senator Representing Abia North, Chief Mao Ohuabunwa, has said he has no regrets empowering his constituents with frying pans. He stated this at the official closing ceremony of the second phase of the Senator Mao Ohuabunwa Skill Acquisition Training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Social Media Mockery: No regrets empowering my constituents with frying pans \u2013 Abia Senator Ohuabunwa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Social Media Mockery: No regrets empowering my constituents with frying pans \u2013 Abia Senator Ohuabunwa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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