By Hassan Tukur
The Obi/Datti Presidential Campaign Council has condemned the attack on its Presidential Candidate Peter Obi in Katsina, Katsina State on Monday.
The party in a statement on Tuesday by its Head of Media Diran Onifade explained that the party’s Presidential candidate had met with women in a townhall and then held a hugely successful rally at the Muhammad Dikko Stadium. He said that on their way back to the airport, hoodlums attacked the car that its candidate was riding in with heavy stones from his driver’s side causing substantial damage to the vehicle.
He said that the candidate and other occupants of the vehicle were lucky and unhurt while the driver did everything things possible to escape from the mob.
He went further to report that another set of thugs had earlier thrown stones from outside the stadium which damaged several vehicles including that of the official stage crew managers.
He said that the two incidents taken together had led the party to suspect that the attacks may have been premeditated at the behest of desperate politicians who had been deluding themselves with the false claim that they had the northwest locked up but were shocked by the show of force of the Obidient movement in the region.
While thanking the good people of Katsina who came out enmasse to support the campaign yesterday, the party called on security agencies to investigate the matter to forestall future occurrences.
