{"id":68253,"date":"2025-06-16T17:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68253"},"modified":"2025-06-16T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:32:56","slug":"tinubu-postpones-kaduna-visit-heads-to-benue-over-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/16\/tinubu-postpones-kaduna-visit-heads-to-benue-over-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Postpones Kaduna Visit, Heads to Benue Over Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has postponed his scheduled visit to Kaduna State and will instead visit Benue State on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in a renewed effort to address the worsening security crisis in the region.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Tinubu\u2019s visit to Benue aims to assess the situation firsthand and seek lasting solutions to the recurring violence that has claimed numerous lives and displaced many communities.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, the President is expected to meet with traditional rulers, political leaders, religious figures, community heads, and youth representatives to chart a path toward peace and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of his arrival, Tinubu has dispatched the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the National Security Adviser, the Inspector General of Police, heads of intelligence agencies, and the chairmen of the Senate and House Defence Committees to Benue.<\/p>\n<p>The President is also expected to hold a town hall meeting with key stakeholders during the visit.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu has consistently condemned the violence in Benue, urging leaders and residents to embrace peace, unity, and mutual understanding.<\/p>\n<p>He also extended condolences to the families of victims and all affected communities.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu was initially scheduled to visit Kaduna on Wednesday to commission various projects but will now make the trip on Thursday, June 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu President Bola Tinubu has postponed his scheduled visit to Kaduna State and will instead visit Benue State on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in a renewed effort to address the worsening security crisis in the region. According to a statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Tinubu\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68254,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68253\/revisions\/68254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}