Atiku speaks on convoy attack, says 74 hospitalized

Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the attack on his campaign convoy by thugs in Maiduguri, Borno State.

Atiku through the PDP Presidential Campaign spokesperson, Senator Dino Melaye, said that no fewer than 74 persons have been hospitalised while several vehicles were vandalised.

Melaye accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of trying to stop their campaign in the State by deploying thugs to attack them.

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Melaye added that the ruling party in the State deployed the thugs to attack PDP convoy with stones, sticks, matchetes as the convoy left the Shehu of Borno’s Palace to the Ramat Square, the venue of PDP presidential rally, all in an attempt to frustrate the programme.

He lamented that the thugs were deployed in many strategic locations to attack PDP supporters.

Sen Melaye said, “But we want to assure them that nobody can stop us.”

More than 10 vehicles were vandalised by APC supporters carrying placards around the axis of Bulumkutu in the State capital.

Hundreds of thugs carrying clubs, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons led by a top loyalist of the APC were sighted around the Ramat Square, the venue of the PDP’s rally.