{"id":919732,"date":"2022-01-26T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/okorocha-joins-2023-presidential-race\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:54:00","slug":"okorocha-joins-2023-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/26\/okorocha-joins-2023-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Okorocha Joins 2023 Presidential Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_810575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-810575\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-810575 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/imo-state-government-taskforce-demolish-fence-of-reach-fm-allegedly-owned-by-former-governor-rochas-okorochas-daughter-video-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Okorocha Declares Intention To Run For President In 2023\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-810575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Okorocha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senator Rochas Okorocha of Imo West has declared his ambition to run for president in the general election in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Okorocha\u2019s intentions were expressed in a letter read aloud on the Senate floor by Senate President Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>On January 31, the former governor of Imo state stated he will formally announce his intention at a global press conference in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Miyetti Allah: Tinubu Will Care For Us If Elected President In 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Okorocha has joined the All Progressives Congress\u2019s increasing list of presidential candidates (APC).<\/p>\n<p>Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos, and David Umahi, Ebonyi governor, have declared their intention to run for the highest office in the land.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okorocha Senator Rochas Okorocha of Imo West has declared his ambition to run for president in the general election in 2023. Okorocha\u2019s intentions were expressed in a letter read aloud on the Senate floor by Senate President Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday. On January 31, the former governor of Imo state stated he will formally announce [&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-919732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919732","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=919732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}