{"id":915545,"date":"2022-01-12T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T08:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/umahi-informs-buhari-of-presidential-ambition\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T08:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T08:05:08","slug":"umahi-informs-buhari-of-presidential-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/umahi-informs-buhari-of-presidential-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Umahi Informs Buhari Of Presidential Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_834465\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-834465\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-834465 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/David-Dave-Umahi-600x323.jpg\" alt=\"2023: Umahi Informs Buhari Of Presidential Ambition\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-834465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Umahi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Governor of Ebonyi Dave Umahi says he has told President Muhammadu Buhari of his desire to run for president in the general election in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Following a meeting with Buhari on Tuesday, the governor told state house media about his ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi\u2019s statement comes less than 24 hours after Bola Tinubu, a chieftain\u00a0of the All Progressives Congress (APC), announced that he had informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his desire to run for the presidency in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>According to Umahi, the president advised him to consult widely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0I\u2019ve Informed Buhari Of My Presidential Ambition \u2013 Tinubu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The governor stated that Tinubu\u2019s participation in the presidential contest did not bother him.<\/p>\n<p>The Ebonyi governor noted that if the APC opens the ticket, he has a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi further stated that if given the chance, he will replicate his work in Ebonyi state at the national level, particularly in terms of infrastructural development.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, who stated that he favours a political solution to the south-security east\u2019s concerns, also stated that the region\u2019s economic activities had been greatly impacted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umahi Governor of Ebonyi Dave Umahi says he has told President Muhammadu Buhari of his desire to run for president in the general election in 2023. Following a meeting with Buhari on Tuesday, the governor told state house media about his ambition. Umahi\u2019s statement comes less than 24 hours after Bola Tinubu, a chieftain\u00a0of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}