{"id":73374,"date":"2025-08-16T14:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73374"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:59:39","slug":"bye-elections-security-operatives-arrest-100-suspected-thugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/16\/bye-elections-security-operatives-arrest-100-suspected-thugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye-Elections: Security Operatives Arrest 100 Suspected Thugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Security operatives on Saturday arrested no fewer than 100 suspected political thugs who allegedly attempted to disrupt the by-election in the Bagwai\/Shanono constituency of Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel of the Nigerian Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), were deployed in large numbers across the area to maintain order.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were intercepted at barricades mounted at the entrance to the constituency by the security agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Kano State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Ambassador Abdu Zango, confirmed the arrests to journalists at the INEC local government headquarters in Bagwai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; Security operatives on Saturday arrested no fewer than 100 suspected political thugs who allegedly attempted to disrupt the by-election in the Bagwai\/Shanono constituency of Kano State. Personnel of the Nigerian Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), were deployed in large numbers across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73374","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=73374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73376,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73374\/revisions\/73376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}