{"id":49716,"date":"2024-09-24T19:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=49716"},"modified":"2024-09-24T19:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:10:46","slug":"orji-uzor-kalu-dismisses-death-rumours-clarifies-absence-for-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/24\/orji-uzor-kalu-dismisses-death-rumours-clarifies-absence-for-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Orji Uzor Kalu Dismisses Death Rumours, Clarifies Absence for Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia North has dismissed recent rumors regarding his death and claims of a medical check-up during his extended absence from Nigeria. Addressing the press at the National Assembly on Tuesday, the former governor of Abia State clarified that he had been on a study trip, not for any health-related reason.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kalu explained that he had taken permission from Senate President Godswill Akpabio before embarking on the trip. &#8220;Listen, there was nothing wrong with me. I took permission from the Senate President about seven days before the Senate closed. I went for a little study in one of the universities that I paid for myself, not that anyone paid for me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The senator further detailed that he attended courses on democracy and the economy for two months, utilizing the legislative recess for self-improvement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not die. I didn\u2019t go for any medical check-up,&#8221; Kalu stressed. &#8220;But if people say I have died, we give thanks to God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With these remarks, Kalu aimed to put an end to the widespread speculation regarding his health and whereabouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia North has dismissed recent rumors regarding his death and claims of a medical check-up during his extended absence from Nigeria. Addressing the press at the National Assembly on Tuesday, the former governor of Abia State clarified that he had been on a study trip, not for any health-related reason. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":49717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49716","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\/49716","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49718,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49716\/revisions\/49718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}