{"id":30912,"date":"2014-09-05T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30912"},"modified":"2014-09-05T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T10:59:13","slug":"2015-mark-us-secretary-parley-security-free-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/2015-mark-us-secretary-parley-security-free-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: Mark, US Secretary Parley on security, free polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43926\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43922\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, the United State Assistant Secretary on African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield and the USA Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwiste yesterday held a closed door session deliberating on issues bordering on security concerns as well as credible and free polls in 2015.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43934\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43923\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">The trio also during their discussion agreed to intensify forces in assisting the nation to tackle insurgency and the dreaded Boko Haram sect menace across the country.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43924\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43935\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">The Senate President who played host to the United State of America guests in his official residence, Apo, Abuja, said the bilateral ties between Nigeria and the USA has come a long way adding that the present administration will not leave any stone unturned in ensuring absolute peace and harmony in the nation.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43936\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">He stressed that Nigeria is relying on an advanced democracy like the United State of America in strengthening her young democratic institutions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are a young democratic nation. We are ready to receive whatsoever assistant from an advanced democratic nation such as the US.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The US has assured us of their support in the area of elections, security, health and so on.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are happy and we will not relent in our quest for a secure and peaceful Nigeria,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43961\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">While urging Nigerians to always believe in the present administration, Senator Mark assured that Nigeria will soon be out of the woods.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43960\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43959\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the US has already built a strong relationship with Nigeria noting that the just concluded US\/African Summit was another move by the US to close rank with developing nations across Africa.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43957\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43956\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">She \u00a0further assured of the US readiness to assist Nigeria towards a credible, free and fair polls in 2015 general elections.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43955\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43954\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">Signed:<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43953\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43958\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">Kola Ologbondiyan<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_43952\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;\">Special Adviser, Media &amp; Publicity to the President of the Senate<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\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>President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, the United State Assistant Secretary on African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield and the USA Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwiste yesterday held a closed door&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":18334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30912","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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