{"id":9717,"date":"2025-12-02T19:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:30:38","slug":"gunmen-attack-abia-governors-advance-team-near-imo-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/12\/02\/gunmen-attack-abia-governors-advance-team-near-imo-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Attack Abia Governor\u2019s Advance Team Near Imo AirpoRt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three members of Abia State Governor Alex Otti\u2019s advance team were attacked on Tuesday morning by unidentified gunmen near Sam Mbakwe Airport in Owerri, Imo State.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened along the Umuowa\u2013Ihite junction road, just a short distance from the airport. The team was on its way to the airport for official duties when gunmen, believed to be on the run, opened fire on their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Otti\u2019s Chief Press Secretary, Njoku Ukoha, confirmed the incident in a statement. He explained that the officers were part of an advance team and that the governor himself was nowhere near the scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, no one was killed or injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public should note that Governor Otti\u2019s convoy was not involved, and no lives were lost,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>As of the time this report was published, the Imo State Police Command had not yet released an official response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three members of Abia State Governor Alex Otti\u2019s advance team were attacked on Tuesday morning by unidentified gunmen near Sam Mbakwe Airport in Owerri, Imo State. The attack happened along the Umuowa\u2013Ihite junction road,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9719,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions\/9719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}