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Internally Displaced Persons on Tuesday stoned the convoy of Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, who was in Obi Local Government Area for assessment visit to some of the IDP camps and other affected villages. The aggrieved campers stoned the governor’s convoy in Agwatashi. The PUNCH correspondent, who was on the entourage of Governor Al-Makura, observed that many Tiv nationalities in Nasarawa State have deserted their homes in Obi, Awe, Domain and Keana LGAs, while about 100,000 persons are currently taking refuge at the LG headquarters and other villages in the affected local governments. The IDPs, who were protesting the killing of their relations by people believed to be Fulani herders, said they could no longer bear the incessant attacks on their communities, expressing worry that the bodies of their relations killed by the attackers had not been recovered. The governor, who described the action of the protesting IDPs as “understandable in view of the psychological

  On Saturday, the PDP governorship candidate in Lagos state, Jimi Agbaje, rode on a motorcycle (okada) to a campaign rally organised for him by a coalition of NGO, trade unions and some socio-cultural organisations.