{"id":3474,"date":"2025-01-10T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:25:37","slug":"ohanaeze-ndigbo-activist-lawyer-okwukwu-emerges-president-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/ohanaeze-ndigbo-activist-lawyer-okwukwu-emerges-president-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohanaeze Ndigbo: Senator Azuta-Mbata Emerges President General"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Senator John Azuta-Mbata has emerged the 13th President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, a prominent Igbo socio-cultural organisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This occurred during the election of new executives in Enugu on Friday, where Azuta-Mbata was elected as the new leader, succeeding Fidelis Chukwu, whose tenure has ended.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Azuta-Mbata hails from Rivers State in South-south Nigeria, marking a significant milestone in the organisation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The election process was conducted via voice voting, and alongside Azuta-Mbata, 15 other individuals were elected to various executive positions within the organisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As a former senator, Azuta-Mbata is expected to bring a wealth of experience to his new role, having served as a senator for the Rivers East constituency from 1999 to 2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator John Azuta-Mbata has emerged the 13th President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, a prominent Igbo socio-cultural organisation. This occurred during the election of new executives in Enugu on Friday, where Azuta-Mbata was elected as the new leader, succeeding Fidelis Chukwu, whose tenure has ended. Azuta-Mbata hails from Rivers State in South-south Nigeria, marking a significant milestone in the organisation\u2019s history. The election process was conducted via voice voting, and alongside Azuta-Mbata, 15 other individuals were elected to various executive positions within the organisation. As a former senator, Azuta-Mbata is expected to bring a wealth of experience to his new role, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[838,277,840],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-election","tag-ohanaeze-ndigbo","tag-senator-john-azuta-mbata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions\/3478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}