{"id":263333,"date":"2020-09-27T19:16:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=263333"},"modified":"2020-09-27T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T18:17:08","slug":"governors-forum-condemns-attack-on-gov-zulums-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=263333","title":{"rendered":"Governors forum condemns attack on Gov Zulum&#8217;s convoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) has condemned Saturday\u2019s attack on the convoys of Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno State along Maiduguri Baga Road, by Boko Haram insurgents, describing it as a distraction.<\/p>\n<p>The forum made the condemnation in a statement signed by its Chairman, Gov. Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi on Sunday in Abuja, while commiserating with the people and government of Borno over the incidence, NAN reposts.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, one of the convoys belonged to the governor while the other belonged to the committee on Baga reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Progressive Governors, we are saddened by this dastardly attack, which has resulted in the unfortunate death of precious lives of security personnel and innocent citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attack of Saturday, Sept. 26, on the two convoys by the Boko Haram insurgents is to distract the government from ensuring that life returns to normal in Borno.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we commiserate with the Government and people of Borno, we call on the Federal Government to immediately provide more logistical support to security agencies deployed to Borno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It added that the progressive governors on their part will continue to support their colleague to ensure peace and tranquillity returns to the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reaffirm our commitment to support our security agencies to end all activities of Boko Haram in all parts of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe join our brother, Gov. Zulum, our leaders in Borno and Nigerians to pray for the repose of the souls of all those who lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this painful period, Nigerians should be strengthened by the determination of Gov. Zulum to expedite the peace building process in Borno and indeed the whole of the North East,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It charged Nigerians to rise in support of the laudable initiatives of the Borno government to return citizens in the state to normal life.<\/p>\n<p>(DailyPost)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) has condemned Saturday\u2019s attack on the convoys of Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno State along Maiduguri Baga Road, by Boko Haram insurgents, describing it as a distraction. The forum made the condemnation in a statement signed by its Chairman, Gov. Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi on Sunday in Abuja, while commiserating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[37,40,14870,12872],"class_list":["post-263333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-borno","tag-nigerian-governors","tag-zulum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/263334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}