{"id":7478,"date":"2019-03-31T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T10:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2019-03-31T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T10:51:51","slug":"no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha","title":{"rendered":"No plans to dump APC \u2014 Okorocha"},"content":{"rendered":"<article data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha\/\" data-post-type=\"post\" data-post-id=\"891306\">Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has said pictorial image being circulated on the social media, depicting his discussions with some officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to join the party, is not true.<\/p>\n<p>Okorocha has been placed on suspension by the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>In his reaction, at the weekend, Okorocha\u2019s Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Sam Onwuemeodo, urged the public to disregard such picture, accusing his political detractors as being behind such postings, clarifying that the picture in question was taken long ago.<\/p>\n<p>The governor believed the declaration of PDP candidate as the governor- elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), was wrongly done.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said: \u201cThis photograph is as old as the APC government in 2015. But those who were declared winner of the governorship election in lmo with votes from the three local councils of Mbaise have been making fruitless efforts to blackmail Governor Rochas Okorocha to see if that could help them go free with their electoral fraud. They posted this picture on social media with badly written statement and falsely claiming that the governor was in a PDP meeting today. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okorocha said he was optimistic that any stolen mandate would be retrieved at the appropriate time.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"newsletter_single_desktop\">\n<div class=\"box\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"ventra-dfp-3\" class=\"dfp-ad ad-container\" data-google-query-id=\"CPyJo-yarOECFYIN4AodmukAFQ\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has said pictorial image being circulated on the social media, depicting his discussions with some officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to join the party, is not true. Okorocha has been placed on suspension by the All Progressives Congress (APC). In his reaction, at the weekend, Okorocha\u2019s Chief Press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":5606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,209,251,65],"class_list":["post-7478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-governor","tag-inec","tag-pdp"],"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>No plans to dump APC \u2014 Okorocha - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No plans to dump APC \u2014 Okorocha\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has said pictorial image being circulated on the social media, depicting his discussions with some officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to join the party, is not true. Okorocha has been placed on suspension by the All Progressives Congress (APC). In his reaction, at the weekend, Okorocha\u2019s Chief Press [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-31T10:51:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"936\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"562\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"No plans to dump APC \u2014 Okorocha\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-31T10:51:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha\"},\"wordCount\":210,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Governor\",\"INEC\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha\",\"name\":\"No plans to dump APC \u2014 Okorocha - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-31T10:51:51+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png\",\"width\":936,\"height\":562},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"No plans to dump APC \u2014 Okorocha\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\",\"name\":\"alico\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"No plans to dump APC \u2014 Okorocha - Nigeria","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"No plans to dump APC \u2014 Okorocha","og_description":"Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has said pictorial image being circulated on the social media, depicting his discussions with some officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to join the party, is not true. Okorocha has been placed on suspension by the All Progressives Congress (APC). In his reaction, at the weekend, Okorocha\u2019s Chief Press [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2019-03-31T10:51:51+00:00","og_image":[{"width":936,"height":562,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"alico","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"alico","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha"},"author":{"name":"alico","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"headline":"No plans to dump APC \u2014 Okorocha","datePublished":"2019-03-31T10:51:51+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha"},"wordCount":210,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png","keywords":["APC","Governor","INEC","PDP"],"articleSection":["all news","Parties"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha","name":"No plans to dump APC \u2014 Okorocha - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png","datePublished":"2019-03-31T10:51:51+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png","width":936,"height":562},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/no-plans-to-dump-apc-okorocha#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"No plans to dump APC \u2014 Okorocha"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7","name":"alico","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}