Angry youths in Bauchi on Thursday twice pelted
President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign team
with stones and water sachets.
The broom-wielding youths first blocked the
motorcade of the President on Nasarawa Street
as it made its way to the palace of the Emir
of Bauchi, where Jonathan and his team were
going to pay homage.
It took the combined efforts of soldiers and riot
policemen to disperse the youths, who were
chanting anti-Peoples Democratic Party slogans
and extolling the All Progressives Congress
presidential candidate, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.)
Along the popular Ran Road, some of the
youths, who were singing “Sai Buhari” disrupted
business activities.
In the President’s motorcade were Vice
President Namadi Sambo; Governor Isa
Yuguda; the PDP National Chairman, Adamu
Mu’azu; and the Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed.
Also on the convoy were Governors Ibrahim
Dankwambo (Gombe) and Godswill Akpabio
(Akwa-Ibom) as well as the Director-General
of the PDP Presidential Campaign
Organisation, Ahmadu Ali.
Jonathan and his team however made their way
to the Ibrahim Babangida Square venue of the
campaign rally where they were again
embarrassed by another set of broom-wielding
youths.
Before the arrival of the campaign team at the
venue, the youths were chanting solidarity songs
for the President and the PDP. They marched
round the venue with drums and placards with
the President’s pictures.
They however suddenly turned wild when the
programme began and started pelting dignitaries
on the platform with objects.
They also destroyed Jonathan’s campaign posters,
some of the canopies erected at the venue and
plastic chairs.
Water sachets were thrown at the FCT minister
while he was making his speech and pleading with
the people of the state to vote for Jonathan
and the PDP on February 14.
The other dignitaries on the stand had to
bend their heads to avoid being hit by the
objects that were hurled at them by the crowd.
The obviously embarrassed minister called on
Jonathan and other dignitaries to ignore what was
happening since it was the “handiwork of the
opposition.”
“Fellow supporters of the PDP, let’s ignore what
is happening. This is politics. It is the handiwork
of those who are bent on destroying politics in
Nigeria,” he told Jonathan and the other
members of the campaign team.
When Mohammed shouted, “Nigeria, ” the crowd
shouted back “sai Buhari,” “Ba mayi,”
meaning, “We don’t support the PDP, we want
Buhari.”
A security operative, who claimed to have
witnessed the incidents, told one of our
correspondents in Abuja, that six of his
colleagues in the Department of State
Security, were injured.
He added that four of them were treated at an
undisclosed hospital and discharged immediately
while the remaining two were admitted.
The two, according to him, had deep cuts on
their heads.
source: www.punchng.com/news/youths-attack-presidents-campaign-team-in-bauchi/

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Am a die hard buhari supporter bt i must say its wrong to stone GEJ..........its a political rally....if u dnt like him....dont show up......dats a better way of showing ur annoyance.

How do you expect Cow and Donkey to behave?

Violence of any sort should be condemned by all parties.

The best thing for anyone with contrary opinion is to step up the campaigns and get his/her PVC ready to do the needful in February....