{"id":10775,"date":"2026-11-06T08:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/obono-obla-dismisses-atikus-claim-of-insecurity-in-calabar\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:30:52","slug":"obono-obla-dismisses-atikus-claim-of-insecurity-in-calabar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/obono-obla-dismisses-atikus-claim-of-insecurity-in-calabar\/","title":{"rendered":"Obono-Obla dismisses Atiku\u2019s claim of insecurity in Calabar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Obono-Obla-dismisses-Atikus-claim-of-insecurity-in-Calabar.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Obono-Obla dismisses Atiku\u2019s claim of insecurity in Calabar\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Obono-Obla-dismisses-Atikus-claim-of-insecurity-in-Calabar.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Atiku-e1790506191950-300x233.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Atiku-e1790506191950-768x597.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Atiku-e1790506191950.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Says Peter Obi incident isolated case<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A human rights activist and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress has dismissed recent claims of insecurity in Calabar by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as a product of gossip far from reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on a national television station, Obono-Obla was emphatic that the Cross River State Capital has no security issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, \u201cCalabar is one of the safest cities anybody would want to live in Nigeria,\u201d and lauded Governor Bassey Otu for providing effective and efficient security measures in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his words: \u201cThe governor has addressed security in Calabar. Before the governor came into office, I was very familiar with the security situation. University lecturers and doctors were being kidnapped almost every day. But as soon as he came into office, he appointed a retired Major General as state security adviser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe governor has also provided significant security support, including government police officers and other security agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While accusing Atiku of relying on gossip, he said \u201cit is very petty for somebody who was a former Vice President of this country to descend to that level and begin talking about security in Calabar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the incident involving the campaign convoy of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Nigeria Democratic Congress, the former presidential aide said stone-throwing during campaigns, even in advanced democracies like the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While describing the incident as an isolated case, he wondered if the incident was not as the result of internal disaffection within Obi\u2019s own party.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/obono-obla-dismisses-atikus-claim-of-insecurity-in-calabar\/\">Obono-Obla dismisses Atiku\u2019s claim of insecurity in Calabar<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says Peter Obi incident isolated case A human rights activist and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress has dismissed recent claims of insecurity in Calabar by former Vice President Atiku&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}