Security bar journalists from governors’ induction

State House correspondents and accredited correspondents of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) have been prevented from covering day two of the ongoing induction programme organised for returning and newly elected state governors.

The event is taking place at the State House Conference Centre where State House correspondents also have their work station.

However, they have been barred from having access to both the venue of the conference as well as their work station upstairs, ostensibly for reporting some presentations considered uncomplimentary made by some invitees.

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When pressed to offer reasons why journalists were not allowed access security officials claimed that the order came from the NGF.

But the spokesman of the NGF, Abdulrazaq Barkindo, promptly dismissed the suggestion, saying that the security officials took the decision on their own accord.

He said all efforts to get them to reverse the decision have failed.