November 09, (THEWILL) – At least 74 persons have been hospitalised and several vehicles vandalised as hoodlums attacked the convoy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Wednesday.
The PDP Presidential Campaign spokesperson, Senator Dino Melaye, who disclosed this during the party’s rally in Maiduguri, accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of trying to stop their campaign in the State by deploying thugs to attack them.
He said, “They deployed their thugs to attack our convoys with stones, sticks, machetes as we left the Shehu’s Palace to come to the Ramat Square, all in an attempt to stop our rally”.
Melaye lamented that the thugs were deployed in many strategic locations to attack the PDP supporters.
“But we want to assure them that nobody can stop us”, he added.
THEWILL gathered that more than 10 vehicles were vandalised by the hoodlums around the axis of Bulumkutu.
Hundreds of thugs carrying clubs, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons, allegedly led by a top loyalist of the APC, were reportedly sighted around Ramat Square, the venue of the PDP’s rally.
However, shortly after Atiku and his team left Maiduguri, a fire service vehicle and water tankers sprayed water on the tarred road leading to Shehu’s palace, while hundreds of APC supporters swept the road as a sign of sweeping Atiku and members of entourage feet out of Borno State.
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