Heavy security presence as mammoth crowd gathers in Maiduguri

Security has been beefed up around the Sports Centre in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, ahead of the All Progressives Congress, APC, campaign rally in the state NAN reports that security personnel heavily secured the venue and surrounding areas to maintain law and order and prevent any breach of peace at the rally. An APC stakeholder, Aliyu Modu, said the heavy security presence was necessary to ensure a peaceful and orderly gathering. Modu said the state was gradually recovering from years of security challenges and that all stakeholders had a responsibility to protect the prevailing peace. “Perhaps, the tight security is to ensure that there is no breach of peace. “Borno is graduall...