{"id":80113,"date":"2025-12-11T18:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80113"},"modified":"2025-12-11T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:22:03","slug":"bayelsa-deputy-governor-ewhrudjakpo-dies-in-fmc-yenagoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/11\/bayelsa-deputy-governor-ewhrudjakpo-dies-in-fmc-yenagoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa Deputy Governor Ewhrudjakpo Dies in FMC Yenagoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has died after collapsing suddenly in his office and being rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at about 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. Family sources confirmed he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>While the exact cause of the collapse has not been officially disclosed, sources suggested a possible cardiac complication.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the deputy governor also attributed the collapse to his demanding workload.<\/p>\n<p>Security operatives have since taken control of the hospital, restricting access as government officials visit to pay their respects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has died after collapsing suddenly in his office and being rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa. The incident occurred at about 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. Family sources confirmed he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at the hospital. While the exact cause of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80113","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=80113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80114,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80113\/revisions\/80114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}