…Dino: 74 Hospitalised
By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri
At least 74 persons were hospitalised, while over 100 vehicles were vandalised as political hoodlums suspected to be of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and that of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, clashed, when the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, stormed Maiduguri for campaign rally.
The PDP PCC spokesperson, Dino Melaye, disclosed this during the party’s rally in Maiduguri.
He pointed accusing figure at the APC, accusing the party of trying to stop the PDP campaign in the state, by deploying thugs to attack them.
He said, “They deployed their thugs to attack our convoys with stones, sticks, matchets, as we left the Shehu’s Palace to come to the Ramat Square, all in an attempt to stop our rally.”
He lamented that the “thugs were deployed in many strategic locations to attack our supporters. But we want to assure them that nobody can stop us.”
