{"id":32708,"date":"2020-11-22T19:43:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T19:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32708"},"modified":"2020-11-22T19:43:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T19:43:49","slug":"apc-reacts-to-murder-of-chairman-in-nasarawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-reacts-to-murder-of-chairman-in-nasarawa","title":{"rendered":"APC reacts to murder of chairman in Nasarawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed sadness over the murder of one of its chairmen in Nasarawa, Philip Shekwo<\/p>\n<p>Shekwo was abducted Saturday night from his residence in Lafia, the state capital, and found dead on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Yekini Nabena, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, in a statement, said it was \u201ca dark day for the APC family\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The party condoled with Shekwo\u2019s family, Governor Abdullahi Sule, the State Working Committee, members and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>APC prayed God to give all that grieves the strength to bear the loss and grant Shekwo eternal rest.<\/p>\n<p>Nabena urged the police and other security agencies to \u201cfish out the sponsors and perpetrators of the evil, heinous and barbaric crime\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed sadness over the murder of one of its chairmen in Nasarawa, Philip Shekwo Shekwo was abducted Saturday night from his residence in Lafia, the state capital, and found dead on Sunday. Yekini Nabena, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, in a statement, said it was \u201ca dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,34,1164,254],"class_list":["post-32708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-apc","tag-nasarawa","tag-nigeria"],"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>APC reacts to murder of chairman in Nasarawa - 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\/parties\/apc-reacts-to-murder-of-chairman-in-nasarawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APC reacts to murder of chairman in Nasarawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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