{"id":26743,"date":"2024-04-11T14:13:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=26743"},"modified":"2024-04-11T14:13:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T14:13:58","slug":"just-in-abias-first-governor-ogbonnaya-onu-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/11\/just-in-abias-first-governor-ogbonnaya-onu-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Abia\u2019s First Governor, Ogbonnaya Onu, is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first civil governor of Abia State and\u00a0 former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has been confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source close to the deceased who spoke to newsmen on Thursday, the former governor died after a brief illness in an undisclosed hospital in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the late 72-year-old former governor of old Abia State, during the 2023 general election, contested for the presidential flag of the All Progressive Congress (APC) but lost to Ahmed Tinubu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first civil governor of Abia State and\u00a0 former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has been confirmed dead. According to a source close to the deceased who spoke to newsmen on Thursday, the former governor died after a brief illness in an undisclosed hospital in Nigeria. Recall that the late 72-year-old former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26754,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743\/revisions\/26754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}