{"id":6901,"date":"2022-04-13T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2022-04-13T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:57:12","slug":"ebonyi-gov-denies-dropping-presidential-ambition-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6901","title":{"rendered":"Ebonyi Gov Denies Dropping Presidential Ambition For Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Ebonyi State Governor and presidential hopeful, David Umahi, has denied dropping his presidential bid for the Senate come 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Uchenna Orji, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abakaliki.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Orji described the viral claim which suggested that the governor had backed out of the race for the ticket of the All Progressives Congress as falsehood peddled by political charlatans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He described the claim currently trending on social media as nothing but the empty and vaunting architecture of political charlatans who are intimidated by the tall and admirable hallmarks of leadership excellence recorded by the governor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He described the sponsors of the rumour as political jobbers who would be made to face the full wrath of the law as he stressed that Umahi\u2019s presidential ambition was unwavering and alive in the hearts of Nigerians.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebonyi State Governor and presidential hopeful, David Umahi, has denied dropping his presidential bid for the Senate come 2023. His Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Uchenna Orji, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abakaliki. Orji described the viral claim which suggested that the governor had backed out of the race for the ticket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4115,4114,4061,300],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-david-umahi","tag-ebonyi-gov","tag-presidential-ambition","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901"}],"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=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6903,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions\/6903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}