{"id":73838,"date":"2025-08-21T10:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73838"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:15:47","slug":"pdp-blasts-abdulrazaq-for-praising-tinubu-over-zamfara-terror-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/21\/pdp-blasts-abdulrazaq-for-praising-tinubu-over-zamfara-terror-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Blasts AbdulRazaq for Praising Tinubu over Zamfara Terror Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kwara State has berated Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for commending President Bola Tinubu over the arrest of Ansaru terrorist leaders in Zamfara, describing his remarks as \u201cinsensitive and irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies had recently captured Ansaru leader Mahmud Muhammad Usman and his deputy, Mahmud al-Nigeri, also known as Malam Mahmuda. AbdulRazaq, through his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, hailed the operation as \u201ca big win for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, the PDP Publicity Secretary, Olusegun Adewara, said while Zamfara may rejoice at improved security, many Kwara communities remain under siege from banditry, kidnappings, and terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>He listed Babanla, Oke-Ode, Patigi, Edu, Kaiama, and Baruten as areas badly affected, stressing that families have been displaced and farmlands abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Adewara accused AbdulRazaq of focusing on \u201cflattering press statements to please the presidency\u201d rather than tackling insecurity at home, likening his leadership style to a \u201ctenant-agent transaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The party contrasted him with governors of Borno, Zamfara, Yobe, Kaduna, and Niger States, who it said have shown empathy and taken direct measures to protect victims of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP urged the governor to shun \u201cmedia propaganda\u201d and take decisive action to restore peace in Kwara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat &nbsp; The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kwara State has berated Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for commending President Bola Tinubu over the arrest of Ansaru terrorist leaders in Zamfara, describing his remarks as \u201cinsensitive and irresponsible.\u201d Security agencies had recently captured Ansaru leader Mahmud Muhammad Usman and his deputy, Mahmud al-Nigeri, also known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73838","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=73838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73840,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73838\/revisions\/73840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}