{"id":16875,"date":"2024-02-13T07:03:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T07:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/economic-hardship-address-situation-before-it-gets-out-of-hand-pdp-governors\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T07:03:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T07:03:06","slug":"economic-hardship-address-situation-before-it-gets-out-of-hand-pdp-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/economic-hardship-address-situation-before-it-gets-out-of-hand-pdp-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic hardship: Address situation before it gets out of hand \u2013 PDP governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Amid worsening hardship in the country, governors under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have called on the All Progressives Congress-led federal government to rise to the occasion and address the situation before it gets out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>The governors said the current hardship being experienced by Nigerians was occasioned by the economic and security challenges being faced by the nation.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a communique issued by the governors after their meeting on Monday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The communique of the meeting was read by the chairman of the PDP Governors\u2019 Forum, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State.<\/p>\n<p>They reiterated their call for the establishment of multi-level police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meeting reviewed the State of the Nation and noted the hardship being faced by Nigerians as a result of the economic and security challenges facing the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe forum consequently urges the federal government to as a matter of urgency embark on initiatives involving all the sub-national governments to bring a lasting solution to the crises,\u201d the Forum said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Forum assured the people that the PDP governors would continue to play their part in the effort to bring security and succour to the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this end, we reiterate our call for state police with appropriate safeguards to avoid any abuse or overreach by any tier of government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Forum decried the falling value of the Naira and requested the monetary and fiscal authorities to find appropriate solutions,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>Economic hardship: Address situation before it gets out of hand \u2013 PDP governors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid worsening hardship in the country, governors under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have called on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10314,15,490],"tags":[904,903,180,150],"class_list":["post-16875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-hardship","category-news","category-pdp","tag-economic","tag-hardship","tag-news","tag-pdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}