{"id":71027,"date":"2025-07-19T17:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71027"},"modified":"2025-07-19T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:59:53","slug":"pdp-guber-candidate-survives-abuja-gun-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/19\/pdp-guber-candidate-survives-abuja-gun-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Guber Candidate Survives Abuja Gun Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate for the upcoming Anambra election, Jude Ezenwafor, has survived an assassination attempt in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Ezenwafor was shot by unidentified gunmen around Wuse 2 on Friday night while returning from an engagement.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently receiving treatment at a private hospital in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in the hospital now. Doctors are preparing to operate on me to remove bullets from my body,\u201d he told journalists on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Two others who were with him during the attack also sustained gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate for the upcoming Anambra election, Jude Ezenwafor, has survived an assassination attempt in Abuja. Ezenwafor was shot by unidentified gunmen around Wuse 2 on Friday night while returning from an engagement. He is currently receiving treatment at a private hospital in the city. \u201cI\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71027","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\/71027","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71029,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71027\/revisions\/71029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}