{"id":74126,"date":"2025-08-25T08:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74126"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:07:49","slug":"pdp-govs-defend-zamfara-meeting-accuse-adc-of-politicising-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/25\/pdp-govs-defend-zamfara-meeting-accuse-adc-of-politicising-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Govs Defend Zamfara Meeting, Accuse ADC of Politicising Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governors\u2019 Forum has defended its recent meeting in Zamfara State, accusing the African Democratic Congress (ADC), of exploiting insecurity for political gain.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, the Forum\u2019s Director General, Emmanuel Agbo, said the PDP remains focused and united despite some defections to the ADC, stressing that the party has grown stronger and more determined.<\/p>\n<p>The governors had converged in Gusau, the Zamfara capital, on Friday and Saturday, days after fresh attacks claimed lives in parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, ADC\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, criticised the PDP meeting, urging President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in Zamfara. He accused the PDP governors of insensitivity, saying, \u201cInstead of rallying around their colleague to confront the killings, they staged a political gathering at the scene of mass murder, trampling on the memory of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>The photos of PDP governors grinning in ceremonial robes are totally out of place in an atmosphere still reeking of blood and sorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PDP Governors\u2019 Forum dismissed the ADC\u2019s position as an \u201cirresponsible\u201d attack, insisting it does not play politics with human lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike the ADC, politicising tragedies to score cheap points is not our stock in trade,\u201d the Forum stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba &nbsp; The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governors\u2019 Forum has defended its recent meeting in Zamfara State, accusing the African Democratic Congress (ADC), of exploiting insecurity for political gain. In a statement on Monday, the Forum\u2019s Director General, Emmanuel Agbo, said the PDP remains focused and united despite some defections to the ADC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74126","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\/74126","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=74126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74128,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74126\/revisions\/74128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}