{"id":251850,"date":"2015-02-12T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/kenneth-okonkwo-politics-wont-stop-me-from-acting\/"},"modified":"2015-02-12T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:15:00","slug":"kenneth-okonkwo-politics-wont-stop-me-from-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/02\/12\/kenneth-okonkwo-politics-wont-stop-me-from-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Okonkwo \u2013 \u201cPolitics Won\u2019t Stop Me From Acting\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-273061\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0cf5kennet-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"kennet\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He is one of Nigeria\u2019s oldest actors and he\u2019s still very strong in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo has slammed reports that his political ambition is derailing his Nollywood career.<\/p>\n<p>The actor who is Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representative aspirant for Nsukka\/Igboeze-South Federal Constituency in Enugu State, revealed this in an interview with Daily Independent Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2013<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>\u201cI still act movies; joining politics will not stop me from acting because it is acting that gave me popularity and recognition.I discovered that my people are looking unto me to solve their problems and there is a limit my personal resources can do in solving these problems, that is why I joined politics.To me, politics is not a do or die affair. I believe that if I did not make it this year, I will make it in future.\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> He is one of Nigeria\u2019s oldest actors and he\u2019s still very strong in the industry. Veteran Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo has slammed reports that his political ambition is derailing his Nollywood career. The actor who is Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representative aspirant for Nsukka\/Igboeze-South Federal Constituency in Enugu State, revealed this in an interview with Daily Independent Nigeria. He said: \u2013 \u201cI still act movies; joining politics will not stop me from acting because it is acting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}