{"id":103707,"date":"2023-03-18T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T16:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103707"},"modified":"2023-03-18T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T16:22:35","slug":"election-day-tragedy-3-dead-as-governors-convoy-involved-in-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/election-day-tragedy-3-dead-as-governors-convoy-involved-in-road-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day Tragedy: 3 dead as Governor\u2019s convoy involved in road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three people were killed late Friday in an accident involving the advance party of Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, on the road to Jikamshi, Musawa Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nMalam Al-Amin Isa, the Director-General to the governor on New Media, who confirmed this to newsmen in Katsina, said two of the victims were policemen while the third was a civilian.<\/p>\n<p>Isa said the governor was on his way to his hometown Masari, in Kafur LGA when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Masari, he said, was on his way to his hometown for the Governorship and House of Assembly Elections when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>ASP Gambo Isa, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the state command confirmed the incident but said he had not received details of the mishap as of the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were killed late Friday in an accident involving the advance party of Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, on the road to Jikamshi, Musawa Local Government Area (LGA) of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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