{"id":991875,"date":"2022-02-11T14:03:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/11\/any-act-of-violence-before-or-after-the-election-will-not-be-tolerated-muhammad-bello\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:03:30","slug":"any-act-of-violence-before-or-after-the-election-will-not-be-tolerated-muhammad-bello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/11\/any-act-of-violence-before-or-after-the-election-will-not-be-tolerated-muhammad-bello\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Act of Violence Before or After The Election Will Not be Tolerated &#8211; Muhammad Bello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Muhammad Bello, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, has declared that any act of violence before or after the election will not be tolerated. The attention of the national and international community, he claims, is focused on the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fee71239e21945bda170e10d34ed074e\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">He claimed that he had issued a severe command to security services to punish harshly anyone who instigates unrest during and after the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Anthony Ogunleye, his Chief Press Secretary, said these things in a statement on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/32bae6be83414d6c896eae852f400f46\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cFCT regional council election: Minister appeals for active and peaceful involvement of citizens,\u201d read the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cHe reminded would-be troublemakers that security agencies are under tight orders to bring the full force of the law to bear on wayward individuals or groups who may attempt to disrupt the peace in whatever form,\u201d it said in part.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/dadd12fbbf0e4bd1946dd1dec85d5f07\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201d As a result, he urged parents, traditional, community, and religious leaders to warn their wards, subjects, and congregation members against engaging in acts that could disrupt the elections\u2019 peaceful conduct.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201d Bello also reminded citizens that the elections for the FCT Area Council are attracting national and international attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/d98e94f698e448ea98bbc869faad61a2\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cAs a result, the electorate in the FCT bears the responsibility of ensuring that the elections are conducted peacefully and transparently.\u201d<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/861ea0a569db41359c5a811f36f42892\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">He, on the other hand, urged citizens and candidates to utilize the election to show that all Nigerians are united, regardless of ethnic, religious, or political connections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: pauliarticle1988 (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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He claimed that he had issued a severe command to security services to punish harshly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":991876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}