Five
persons were on Thursday feared killed and many injured in Taraba
during President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign in the northeastern state.
Two were said to be in critical state.
Governor
Ishaku’s convoy was also attacked on its way out of the Danbaba Suntai
Airport where he, his deputy Haruna Manu and other officials of the
government went to see off the president at the end of his rally.
All of the governor’s posters and billboards and those of Atiku Abubakar in the State capital, Jalingo, were mutilated.
Bala
Dan Abu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Governor
Darius Ishaku, who confirmed the incident, condemned the “unfortunate
bloodletting” and faulted security agents of negligence of duty.
Abu,
who briefed reporters in Government House said: “The deputy governor’s
car and several other cars in the convoy, including that of the
commissioner of police and a special Adviser to the governor, were
damaged.
“The thugs, most of whom were imported from neighbouring
states to create the false impression that APC enjoys a large following
in the state, came heavily armed.
“They carried guns, cutlasses
and sticks, which they displayed openly and in the full glare of
security agents who merely looked the other way,” Abu said.
The
governor’s media chief also accused the “APC thugs” of going round
Jalingo metropolis and destroying PDP posters and billboards.
“They were given cover by the security agencies who fired gunshots to scare away those who may dare to confront them.
“What
happened today is a big contrast to the PDP presidential flag-off of
February 5 in Jalingo, which attracted a large crowd but recorded no
incidence of crisis and deaths.
“Residents of Wukari are still
leaking the wounds of the APC violent visitation of January 29, during
which PDP posters and bill boards were torn and a member of the PDP
killed.
“The Taraba State government will no longer fold its arms while innocent people are being killed and maimed,” Abu said.
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