{"id":22542,"date":"2025-03-07T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T09:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22542"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T10:00:19","slug":"ex-presidential-spokesman-doyin-okupe-dies-at-72-after-long-battle-with-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22542","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Presidential Spokesman Doyin Okupe Dies at 72 After Long Battle with Prostate Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Former Presidential Spokesman, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has passed away at the age of 72, <\/span><span class=\"s3\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazellenews.com\/news\/ex-presidential-spokesman-doyin-okupe-dies-at-72\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gazelle<\/a> News<\/span><span class=\"s2\">reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3XvHDXe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s3\">Sahara Reporters<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s2\">, Okupe\u2019s death was linked to prostate cancer, which he had been battling for 16 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Reports indicate that he had been critically ill in recent weeks before eventually succumbing to the illness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In October 2023, he was flown to Israel for treatment after being hospitalized due to complications from the disease. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">However, his condition worsened in recent weeks, ultimately leading to his passing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Presidential Spokesman, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has passed away at the age of 72, The Gazelle Newsreports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[192,81,10261,10262],"class_list":["post-22542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-dies","tag-doyin-okupe","tag-ex-presidential-spokesman","tag-prostate-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22547,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22542\/revisions\/22547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}