{"id":7116,"date":"2023-12-15T18:02:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T18:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/exceptional-democrat-cupp-reacts-to-ezeifes-death\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T18:02:46","slug":"exceptional-democrat-cupp-reacts-to-ezeifes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/exceptional-democrat-cupp-reacts-to-ezeifes-death\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Exceptional democrat\u2019 \u2013 CUPP reacts to Ezeife\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has reacted to the passing of the former governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife.<\/p>\n<p>Ezeife died on Thursday at the age of 85.<\/p>\n<p>His family announced his passing in a statement signed by Rob Ezeife.<\/p>\n<p>CUPP said the news of the elder statesman\u2019s passing came as a rude shock, describing him as the nation\u2019s finest and most eloquent and patriotic democrat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, his demise has created a huge vacuum in the Nigerian political and social order,\u201d a statement signed by Peter Ameh, national secretary of CUPP, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChief (Dr) Chukwuemeka Ezeife remained consistent in his struggle for a better Nigerian nation and was, until his death, a comforting shoulder for all ethnic nationalities across the Nigerian State. His moral and ethical disposition will remain an invaluable asset to those aspiring for public office. We pray that God will grant him eternal rest and give his family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Exceptional democrat\u2019 \u2013 CUPP reacts to Ezeife\u2019s death<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has reacted to the passing of the former governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6963,6959,15],"tags":[6964,6937,180],"class_list":["post-7116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cupp","category-ezeife","category-news","tag-cupp","tag-ezeife","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116","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=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}