{"id":77822,"date":"2022-12-12T16:29:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze"},"modified":"2022-12-12T18:13:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:13:18","slug":"thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze","title":{"rendered":"Thugs set Gombe PDP campaign office ablaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Gombe State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial campaign office for the 2023 governorship election was burnt down on Monday by suspected political thugs.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second attack on the main opposition gubernatorial candidate\u2019s office in four months after a similar attack in August.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Deputy Director-General of Media, Atiku\/Dan Barde Campaign Management Council, Junaidu Usman, said: \u201dThere was an attack on the building housing the Barde Campaign Organisation in the early hours today by political thugs, suspected to be that of the sinking APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cowardly attack on this edifice, one of many in the last months; the present government stand on destruction and violence, a threat to the fragile peace of the state, which must vehemently be rejected by all and sundry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the allegation, the Director General of Press Affairs to the Governor of Gombe State, Ismaila Uba Misilli, said the main opposition party was looking for cheap publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, the Gombe State Police Command spokesperson, ASP Mahid Mu\u2019azu Abubakar, said, \u201cCommissioner of Police (CP) has ordered a discrete investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident, and perpetrators will not go scot-free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Gombe State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial campaign office for the 2023 governorship election was burnt down on Monday by suspected political thugs. This is the second attack on the main opposition gubernatorial candidate\u2019s office in four months after a similar attack in August. A statement by Deputy Director-General of Media, Atiku\/Dan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":77821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1570,2140,2163,254,65,7177],"class_list":["post-77822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-gombe","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-thugs"],"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>Thugs set Gombe PDP campaign office ablaze - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gombe State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial campaign office for the 2023 governorship election was burnt do ...\" \/>\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\/thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thugs set Gombe PDP campaign office ablaze\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gombe State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial campaign office for the 2023 governorship election was burnt do ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-12T15:29:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-12T17:13:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670849975.51.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/parties\/thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Thugs set Gombe PDP campaign office ablaze\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-12T15:29:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-12T17:13:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670849975.51.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"gombe\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"thugs\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/thugs-set-gombe-pdp-campaign-office-ablaze\",\"name\":\"Thugs set Gombe PDP campaign office ablaze - 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