{"id":72621,"date":"2025-08-09T12:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72621"},"modified":"2025-08-09T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:14:38","slug":"audu-ogbeh-former-pdp-chairman-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/09\/audu-ogbeh-former-pdp-chairman-dies-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Audu Ogbeh, Former PDP Chairman, Dies At 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Audu Ogbeh, a former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and minister of agriculture from 2015 to 2019, is dead.<\/p>\n<p>He died on Saturday, August 9, aged 78.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the Ogbeh family on Saturday\u00a0 the elder statesman died peacefully on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father and grandfather; Chief Audu Ogbeh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe passed away on the 9th of August 2025 at the fulfilled age of 78,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The family described Ogbeh as a man who \u201cdeparted peacefully, leaving behind a legacy of integrity, service, and dedication to our nation and community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are comforted by the many lives he touched and the example he set,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The family stated that funeral details would be announced in due course and expressed appreciation to friends, colleagues, and well-wishers for their prayers and support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will appreciate some privacy at this time while we mourn the loss of our patriarch,\u201d the statement read<\/p>\n<p>Ogbeh, born on 28 July 1947, was a Nigerian farmer, playwright and politician.<\/p>\n<p>He was also the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 2001 until January 2005.<\/p>\n<p>He had served as the minister of communications in the Nigerian Second Republic from 1982 to 1983.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2005, he was forced to resign as PDP chairman due to his criticism of former President Olusegun Obasanjo&#8217;s handling of a crisis in Anambra State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Idowu Audu Ogbeh, a former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and minister of agriculture from 2015 to 2019, is dead. He died on Saturday, August 9, aged 78. According to a statement released by the Ogbeh family on Saturday\u00a0 the elder statesman died peacefully on Saturday. \u201cIt is with deep sadness that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72621","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\/72621","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=72621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72623,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72621\/revisions\/72623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}