{"id":2855,"date":"2012-10-24T15:35:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2012-10-24T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T15:35:24","slug":"how-rochas-turned-boxer-at-ekwueme-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=2855","title":{"rendered":"How Rochas turned boxer at Ekwueme birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/oweeelee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2856\" title=\"oweeelee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/oweeelee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/oweeelee.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/oweeelee-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Nigeriais in a desperate search for an Olympic Gold Medal winner in boxing, Governor Rochas Okorocha was said to have engaged himself in a boxing bout at the 80<sup>th<\/sup> birthday ceremony of former Vice-President, Dr Alex Ekwueme.<\/p>\n<p>Newspaper reports revealed that the Imo state Governor allegedly punched a protocol officer attached to Anambra state Governor, Mr. Peter Obi who refused to allow him sit on a chair said to have been reserved for the governor of Anambra.\u00a0 The incident, according to the reports, occurred 20 minutes before most of the invited guests arrived for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble was said to have started when the Imo state Governor, Owelle Okorocha removed the name tag bearing Obi\u2019s name from the seat.\u00a0 This attracted the ire of one Mr. Felix Aluoma, who pushed Governor Okorocha when he was removing the tag.\u00a0 Okorocha\u2019s Aide de camp, Gabriel Onu was said to have pounced on Alumona, hitting and tearing his uniform, while other security details attached to the Imo Governor joined the scuffle.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, observing that the matter was on the verge of escalating beyond proportion, Governor Okorocha was reported to have said there was no basis for a fight over an ordinary seat.<\/p>\n<p>When Governor Obi eventually arrived, he was said to have squeezed himself in the couch, sitting between Anambra state Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi and Governor Okorocha.<\/p>\n<p>In his response to the development, Imo state Information and Strategy Commissioner, Chinedu Offor, denied reports that Owelle Okorocha was involved in a boxing fight with Obi\u2019s protocol officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 As Nigeriais in a desperate search for an Olympic Gold Medal winner in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}