{"id":14205,"date":"2024-01-28T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T11:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-im-praying-for-you-support-us-in-quarterfinals-jimmy-odukoya-tells-cameroonians\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T11:02:44","slug":"afcon-2023-im-praying-for-you-support-us-in-quarterfinals-jimmy-odukoya-tells-cameroonians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-im-praying-for-you-support-us-in-quarterfinals-jimmy-odukoya-tells-cameroonians\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: I\u2019m praying for you, support us in quarterfinals \u2013 Jimmy Odukoya tells Cameroonians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nigerian actor and clergyman, Pastor Jimmy Odukoya has urged Cameroonians to support Nigeria at the ongoing African Cup of Nations, AFCON, after the Super Eagles eliminated their national team from the competition in the round of 16 clash on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that Nigeria defeated Cameroon to advance to the quarterfinals, with two goals from Ademola Lookman on either side of the halves.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the victory in a video message shared via his social media, Odukoya assured Cameroonians that he is praying for their country to bounce back in the next tournament and urged them to support Nigeria in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cTo my Cameroonian family, I pray that the Lord will give you peace. I\u2019m rooting for you as you sojourn on for next AFCON.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was looking forward to enjoying Cameroonian pepper, I will still eat it in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys are lions and you are going to be lions at heart. So we are still all in this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we\u2019ve beat you, support us as we go on to quarterfinals. But know that I\u2019m praying for you. This is not the end for Cameroon. You will come back. I love you, we are all one family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will lock horns with Angola in the quarterfinals on Friday, February 2, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: I\u2019m praying for you, support us in quarterfinals \u2013 Jimmy Odukoya tells Cameroonians<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian actor and clergyman, Pastor Jimmy Odukoya has urged Cameroonians to support Nigeria at the ongoing African Cup of Nations,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103,9676,9677,15,160],"tags":[110,9678,9680,180,9679,201],"class_list":["post-14205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon","category-cameroonians","category-jimmy-odukoya","category-news","category-sport","tag-afcon","tag-cameroonians","tag-jimmy","tag-news","tag-odukoya","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}