{"id":4059,"date":"2014-05-15T04:31:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T04:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2014-05-15T04:50:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T04:50:48","slug":"forgive-and-recall-ike-uche-governor-orji-pleads-with-keshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/forgive-and-recall-ike-uche-governor-orji-pleads-with-keshi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221;Forgive, And Recall Ike Uche&#8221;,  Gov. Orji Pleads with Keshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Abia state Governor, Theodore Orji, has appealed to Super Eagles chief coach Stephen Keshi, to extend a hand of fellowship to Ikechukwu Uche, who was recently omitted from the 30- man provisional list to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Orji, who spoke\u00a0 through his special adviser, Kunle Oyewumi, had applauded Keshi for changing his stance on the team skipper Joseph Yobo and stoke city striker, Osaze Odemwingie.<\/p>\n<p>He however, pleaded with the former Mali coach to extend the same gesture to the Vilarreal striker.<\/p>\n<p>His word: \u201cAs a passionate football fan, I appeal to my good friend Keshi, to have a change of mind and include Uche in his World Cup team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The boy should be forgiven since he is now remorseful,\u201d Governor Orji said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball is a competitive game; we should not allow personal interest to override national aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I salute Keshi for bringing back Yobo and Osaze. I wish he could extend same to Uche.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uche missed out in the 2010 World Cup too, despite being the top scorer during the qualifiers, because of injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Abia state Governor, Theodore Orji, has appealed to Super Eagles chief coach Stephen Keshi, to extend a hand of fellowship to Ikechukwu Uche, who was recently omitted from the 30- man provisional list to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Orji, who spoke\u00a0 through his special adviser, Kunle Oyewumi, had applauded Keshi for changing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}