{"id":80819,"date":"2025-12-24T07:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80819"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:06:32","slug":"akpoti-uduaghan-distributes-2000-bags-of-rice-to-kogi-central-constituents-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/24\/akpoti-uduaghan-distributes-2000-bags-of-rice-to-kogi-central-constituents-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Akpoti-Uduaghan Distributes 2,000 Bags of Rice to Kogi Central Constituents for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has distributed over 2,000 bags of rice and other relief items to constituents across the five local government areas of Kogi Central as part of her Christmas outreach.<\/p>\n<p>The distribution, announced by her Media Adviser Mike Idoko, covered Adavi, Ajaokuta, Okene, Okehi, and Ogori-Magongo LGAs.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative aimed to cushion the impact of rising food prices and help families celebrate Christmas with dignity.<\/p>\n<p>Akpoti-Uduaghan said the exercise reflected her belief that leadership must deliver tangible benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when many households struggle with the cost of living, it is important to support our people practically,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>The rice, in 25-kilogramme bags, reached community groups, women\u2019s associations, youth organisations, religious bodies, the elderly, and other vulnerable residents.<\/p>\n<p>Community leaders described the outreach as one of the largest Christmas rice distributions ever in the district.<\/p>\n<p>A traditional ruler in Okene praised the initiative, saying, \u201cThis is not symbolic support; the scale and reach show genuine concern for the grassroots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beneficiaries across the five LGAs expressed gratitude, describing the gesture as timely and compassionate, reflecting service-driven leadership beyond legislative duties.<\/p>\n<p>The outreach comes a week after Senate President Godswill Akpabio approached the Supreme Court over the legal dispute surrounding Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has distributed over 2,000 bags of rice and other relief items to constituents across the five local government areas of Kogi Central as part of her Christmas outreach. The distribution, announced by her Media Adviser Mike Idoko, covered Adavi, Ajaokuta, Okene, Okehi, and Ogori-Magongo LGAs. The initiative aimed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80819","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=80819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80821,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80819\/revisions\/80821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}