{"id":4140,"date":"2025-01-10T19:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2025-01-10T19:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:48:23","slug":"breaking-sen-john-azu-mbata-emerges-ohanaeze-president-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/breaking-sen-john-azu-mbata-emerges-ohanaeze-president-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Sen John Azu Mbata emerges Ohanaeze President -General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4141\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/maxresdefault-1-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/maxresdefault-1-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/maxresdefault-1.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mbata<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Publisher<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kindly share:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has elected Rivers State-born Sen John Azu Mbata as it&#8217;s new President -General.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mbata takes over from Nze Fidelis\u00a0 Ozichukwu, who\u00a0 succeeded the late Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, who died last year in an interim capacity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Details later&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mbata By Publisher Kindly share: The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has elected Rivers State-born Sen John Azu Mbata&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,2,3],"tags":[67,1017],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-showbiz","category-news","category-politics","tag-ohanaeze-ndigbo","tag-senator-john-azu-mbata"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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