{"id":170411,"date":"2025-07-20T20:28:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition"},"modified":"2025-07-20T22:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:39:07","slug":"police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition","title":{"rendered":"Police Investigate Anambra PDP Guber Candidate&#8217;s Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has launched investigation into a reported attack on the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the forthcoming Anambra State election, Jude Ezenwafor.<\/p>\n<p>Ezenwafor survived an assassination attempt on his life in Abuja on Friday night when gunmen suspected to be assassins attacked and shot him.<\/p>\n<p>Ezenwafor was subsequently admitted in an undisclosed private hospital in the nation\u2019s capital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of the Anambra PDP candidate\u2019s death had emerged online on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>gathered that Ezenwafor is currently battling for life.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh said that the command had launched an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>She, however, said the \u201ctrue position and situation surrounding the incident\u201d cannot be ascertained at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has launched investigation into a reported attack on the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the forthcoming Anambra State election, Jude Ezenwafor. Ezenwafor survived an assassination attempt on his life in Abuja on Friday night when gunmen suspected to be assassins attacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[347,35,254,65,165],"class_list":["post-170411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abuja","tag-anambra","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police Investigate Anambra PDP Guber Candidate&#039;s Condition - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has launched investigation into a reported attack on the governorship ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police Investigate Anambra PDP Guber Candidate&#039;s Condition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has launched investigation into a reported attack on the governorship ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-20T19:28:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-20T21:39:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753035043.006846.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police Investigate Anambra PDP Guber Candidate&#8217;s Condition\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-20T19:28:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-20T21:39:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition\"},\"wordCount\":152,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753035043.006846.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abuja\",\"Anambra\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-investigate-anambra-pdp-guber-candidates-condition\",\"name\":\"Police Investigate Anambra PDP Guber Candidate's Condition - 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