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Sokoto State Governor, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal and his Zamfara State counterpart, Alhaji Bello Matawalle, yesterday called for concerted efforts to check the nation’s worsening insecurity.
Their counterparts in Oyo and Ondo States, Seyi Makinde and Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu respectively, also appealed for calm and peaceful coexistence between the Hausa community and their Yoruba hosts.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has also condemned the violence that led to the loss of lives at the Shasha Market and called for peace between the warring traders.
Tambuwal and Matawalle spoke at Boji-Boji Owa, Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State, shortly after paying a condolence visit to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State on the demise of his father, late Pa Arthur Okorie Okowa.