{"id":78633,"date":"2025-11-13T09:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78633"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:02:31","slug":"senator-ned-nwoko-denies-marrying-regina-daniels-at-17-presents-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/13\/senator-ned-nwoko-denies-marrying-regina-daniels-at-17-presents-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Ned Nwoko Denies Marrying Regina Daniels at 17, Presents Evidence\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senator Ned Nwoko has refuted claims that he married actress Regina Daniels when she was 17, calling the allegations \u201cfalse, misleading and malicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Facebook on Thursday, Nwoko said Daniels told him she was 21 when they met and presented her INEC voter\u2019s card showing her birth date as October 10, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>He added that their marriage took place six years ago, meaning Daniels was of legal age at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny suggestion that I married her at 17 is false and should not be accepted by the public,\u201d he said, accusing critics of exploiting Daniels\u2019s past vulnerabilities to orchestrate a smear campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The age-of-marriage controversy surfaced amid Daniels\u2019s recent claims that she married at 17 and faced emotional manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>Nwoko maintains that their traditional marriage was lawful and conducted when Daniels was of age, dismissing the 17-year narrative as part of a political attack.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute continues to attract public attention, highlighting debates over marital legality, personal agency, and social media influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith Senator Ned Nwoko has refuted claims that he married actress Regina Daniels when she was 17, calling the allegations \u201cfalse, misleading and malicious.\u201d In a statement on Facebook on Thursday, Nwoko said Daniels told him she was 21 when they met and presented her INEC voter\u2019s card showing her birth date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78633","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\/78633","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78636,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78633\/revisions\/78636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}