He was the Borno state candidate of the All Nigeria People’s Party, a conservative party dominant in Nigeria’s Muslim north, for the upcoming April elections. The party already controls politics in Borno state.

Gubio had left Friday prayers in Maiduguri and was walking to his father’s home when the gunmen attacked, said Borno state police commissioner Ibrahim Abubakar. Gubio tried to run for a sport utility vehicle parked nearby, but was cut down before he reached the cover, the police commissioner said.

Two plainclothes police officers and four others including a 12-year-old boy also died in the attack, Abubakar said. Five others were wounded. No arrests had been made Friday afternoon, though paramilitary police patrolled the streets and shut down traffic.

Boko Haram, which means “Western education is sacrilege” in the local Hausa language, has attacked churches and engineered a massive prison break in recent months. The group was thought to be vanquished in 2009, when Nigeria’s military crushed its mosque into concrete shards, and its leader was arrested and died in police custody.

Suspected Boko Haram members have used motorcycle-riding gunmen to attack soldiers and police manning checkpoints throughout Borno state, as well as those who publicly oppose the group. But much remains murky about Boko Haram’s intentions, and whether all the killings in Maiduguri are due to the group’s reemergence.
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