{"id":11661,"date":"2019-06-18T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11661"},"modified":"2019-06-18T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:32:08","slug":"buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"Buhari meets APC govs behind closed doors as insecurity heightens in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday engaged governors elected under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress in a closed door meeting in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting started at the Council Chamber soon after the President arrived the venue around 11.8am with opening prayers said by Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki (Christian prayer), and Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum (Muslim prayer).<\/p>\n<p>Aside Kebbi State Governor Atiku Bagudu who led the APC governors, others at the meeting included governors of Lagos, Ekiti, Edo, Plateau, Niger, Kogi, Borno, Nasarawa, Yobe, Osun and Ogun.<\/p>\n<p>Katsina and Kaduna states had their deputy governors present. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, as well as the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, were also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Though the details of the meeting is not yet known, speculations however are that it might not be unconnected with the increasing level of insecurity in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday engaged governors elected under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress in a closed door meeting in Abuja. The meeting started at the Council Chamber soon after the President arrived the venue around 11.8am with opening prayers said by Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki (Christian prayer), and Borno State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":6394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[34,443,308,386],"class_list":["post-11661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-edo","tag-ekiti","tag-ogun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari meets APC govs behind closed doors as insecurity heightens in Nigeria - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari meets APC govs behind closed doors as insecurity heightens in Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday engaged governors elected under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress in a closed door meeting in Abuja. The meeting started at the Council Chamber soon after the President arrived the venue around 11.8am with opening prayers said by Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki (Christian prayer), and Borno State [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-18T16:32:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari meets APC govs behind closed doors as insecurity heightens in Nigeria\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-18T16:32:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria\"},\"wordCount\":166,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Edo\",\"Ekiti\",\"Ogun\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria\",\"name\":\"Buhari meets APC govs behind closed doors as insecurity heightens in Nigeria - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-18T16:32:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg\",\"width\":650,\"height\":350},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Buhari meets APC govs behind closed doors as insecurity heightens in Nigeria\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\",\"name\":\"alico\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Buhari meets APC govs behind closed doors as insecurity heightens in Nigeria - Nigeria","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Buhari meets APC govs behind closed doors as insecurity heightens in Nigeria","og_description":"President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday engaged governors elected under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress in a closed door meeting in Abuja. The meeting started at the Council Chamber soon after the President arrived the venue around 11.8am with opening prayers said by Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki (Christian prayer), and Borno State [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2019-06-18T16:32:08+00:00","og_image":[{"width":650,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"alico","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"alico","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria"},"author":{"name":"alico","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"headline":"Buhari meets APC govs behind closed doors as insecurity heightens in Nigeria","datePublished":"2019-06-18T16:32:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria"},"wordCount":166,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg","keywords":["APC","Edo","Ekiti","Ogun"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria","name":"Buhari meets APC govs behind closed doors as insecurity heightens in Nigeria - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg","datePublished":"2019-06-18T16:32:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg","width":650,"height":350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-meets-apc-govs-behind-closed-doors-as-insecurity-heightens-in-nigeria#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Buhari meets APC govs behind closed doors as insecurity heightens in Nigeria"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7","name":"alico","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}