{"id":7298,"date":"2021-02-09T22:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=7298"},"modified":"2021-02-09T22:07:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:07:20","slug":"zulums-convoy-not-involved-in-accident-spokesman-clarifies-confirms-death-of-mai-kanuribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=7298","title":{"rendered":"Zulum\u2019s convoy not involved in accident, spokesman clarifies\u00a0   &#8230; Confirms death of Mai Kanuribe\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Zulum\u2019s convoy not involved in accident, spokesman clarifies<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8230; Confirms death of Mai Kanuribe<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The convoy of Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum was not involved in accident, spokesman to the governor, Malam Isa Gusau has clarified.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The clarification, Gusau explained, was in response to \u201ca completely inaccurate news flash published online by an international broadcast news media, which erroneously reported that Zulum\u2019s convoy was today, involved in accident.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The statement reads:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWhile acknowledging with so much grief, empathy for the bereaved families, honour and the highest respect for the memory of the Mai Kanuribe of Lagos, Alhaji Mustapha Muhammad, who alongside two others, died in a car accident along Maiduguri-Mafa road on Tuesday in Borno State, we hereby clarify that the convoy of Governor Babagana Umara Zulum was not in any way involved in the accident referred to. The news report was completely inaccurate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Mai had no doubt traveled to Mafa and the trip was in solidarity with Governor Zulum\u2019s administration and the APC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, the Mai left Mafa on his way back to Maiduguri, while the Governor was still in Mafa.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Governor alongside Senator Kashim Shettima and some leaders, came across the accident on way back from Mafa and as expected, the governor and those accompanying him, followed bodies of the Mai, and others, to their families in Maiduguri, empathized with bereaved families and took part in funerals.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This clarification does not in anyway aim to disown the late Mai, but to put the record as it is.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Governor Zulum deeply recognizes the fact that the late Mai Kanuribe, a leader with open passion for the progress of Borno and its people, undertook his last journey to Mafa, in honour of the Zulum administration and the APC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Governor very deeply shares the grief of the Mai\u2019s bereaved family, and families of those who died with him.\u00a0 Zulum mourns with them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Governor prays that Allah forgives the shortcomings of the Mai, and those who died with him, and admits all of them into Aljanna Firdaus\u201d Gusau wrote in the statement.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zulum\u2019s convoy not involved in accident, spokesman clarifies &#8230; Confirms death of Mai Kanuribe The convoy of Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum was not involved in accident, spokesman to the governor, Malam Isa Gusau has clarified. The clarification, Gusau explained, was in response to \u201ca completely inaccurate news flash published online by an international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zulum\u2019s convoy not involved in accident, spokesman clarifies\u00a0  ... 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