Northern govs vow to defeat Boko Haram, poverty

MAKURDI—Governors of the Northern states have vowed to join forces to defeat Boko Haram insurgents and the attendant poverty unleashed on that part of the country

The governors also pledged to deepen the relationship among the people of different sections of the region to foster greater unity.

Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum and Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, spoke yesterday in Wannune, Tarka local Government Area of Benue State when he led two other governors of the forum to pay a condolence visit to Senator George Akume, who recently lost his elder brother and paramount ruler of Tarka, the late Chief Gabriel Indyer Akume.

Governor Shettima said: “The leaders of the north would not relent until peace is fully restored in the troubled spots of the north just like our joint resolve to overcome poverty in the north will continue to enjoy top priority.”