{"id":75170,"date":"2025-09-08T15:49:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75170"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:49:57","slug":"atiku-obi-condemn-borno-killings-demand-fresh-security-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/08\/atiku-obi-condemn-borno-killings-demand-fresh-security-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku, Obi Condemn Borno Killings, Demand Fresh Security Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi have condemned the recent killings in Borno State, urging urgent reforms to tackle Nigeria\u2019s worsening insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Atiku expressed sadness over the loss of lives, including soldiers, describing the violence as a painful reminder of the high cost Nigerians continue to bear.<\/p>\n<p>He faulted the government\u2019s failure to protect citizens and pledged that under his leadership Nigeria would \u201creturn to the path of peace, unity, and progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obi, in a separate statement titled \u201cNigeria Bleeds, Needs a Declaration of War on Insecurity Now,\u201d lamented the spate of bloodshed across several states over the weekend, calling it stark evidence of a full-blown security emergency.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the government to launch a national war on insecurity and suspend foreign trips by officials, warning that \u201cinvestors will not come into a war zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both leaders stressed that Nigeria needs a decisive shift in strategy to restore peace and stability across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi have condemned the recent killings in Borno State, urging urgent reforms to tackle Nigeria\u2019s worsening insecurity. In a post on X, Atiku expressed sadness over the loss of lives, including soldiers, describing the violence as a painful reminder of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75170","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=75170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75172,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75170\/revisions\/75172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}