{"id":94988,"date":"2022-05-17T17:29:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T16:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=94988"},"modified":"2022-05-17T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T16:29:23","slug":"just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Ortom, Jonathan in closed-door meeting in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom and former President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, met behind closed doors at the former President\u2019s Abuja residence.<\/p>\n<p>Ortom served as minister of state, trade and investments, and later the supervising minister, ministry of aviation, under former Jonathan.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIt was gathered that the fortunes of the opposition PDP and the victory of the party ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections, featured prominently during the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, Ortom\u2019s chief press secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur said, \u201cThe duo met behind closed doors for more than 40 minutes and discussed frankly.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cAlthough none of them spoke to the press when they came out, they were beaming with smiles with the former president exchanging pleasantries with everyone on the governor\u2019s entourage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed further, he said, \u201cThey obviously discussed the Peoples Democratic Party and the future of Nigeria.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nSome of the governor\u2019s aides who accompanied him included Dr James Anbua, principal special assistant; Hon Steven Amase, principal private secretary to the governor, and Hon Abrahams Kwaghngu, principal special assistant on special duties.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom and former President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, met behind closed doors at the former President\u2019s Abuja residence. Ortom served as minister of state, trade and&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>JUST IN: Ortom, Jonathan in closed-door meeting in Abuja - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JUST IN: Ortom, Jonathan in closed-door meeting in Abuja - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom and former President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, met behind closed doors at the former President\u2019s Abuja residence. Ortom served as minister of state, trade and&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-17T16:29:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Ortom-and-Jonathan.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"470\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"JUST IN: Ortom, Jonathan in closed-door meeting in Abuja\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-17T16:29:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/\"},\"wordCount\":183,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Ortom-and-Jonathan.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Exclusive\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/\",\"name\":\"JUST IN: Ortom, Jonathan in closed-door meeting in Abuja - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Ortom-and-Jonathan.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-17T16:29:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Ortom-and-Jonathan.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Ortom-and-Jonathan.jpg\",\"width\":780,\"height\":470},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"JUST IN: Ortom, Jonathan in closed-door meeting in Abuja\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"JUST IN: Ortom, Jonathan in closed-door meeting in Abuja - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"JUST IN: Ortom, Jonathan in closed-door meeting in Abuja - Pointblank News","og_description":"Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom and former President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, met behind closed doors at the former President\u2019s Abuja residence. Ortom served as minister of state, trade and&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2022-05-17T16:29:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":780,"height":470,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Ortom-and-Jonathan.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"JUST IN: Ortom, Jonathan in closed-door meeting in Abuja","datePublished":"2022-05-17T16:29:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/"},"wordCount":183,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Ortom-and-Jonathan.jpg","articleSection":["Exclusive"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/","name":"JUST IN: Ortom, Jonathan in closed-door meeting in Abuja - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Ortom-and-Jonathan.jpg","datePublished":"2022-05-17T16:29:23+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Ortom-and-Jonathan.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Ortom-and-Jonathan.jpg","width":780,"height":470},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/just-in-ortom-jonathan-in-closed-door-meeting-in-abuja\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"JUST IN: Ortom, Jonathan in closed-door meeting in Abuja"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}