The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Secondus, has called for probe over attack on the convoy of a former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, at Kofa village in Bebeji Local Government Area of the state on Thursday.
Mr Secondus said in a statement that the senator was attacked by “hired hoodlums” who wanted to assassinate him.
The PDP chairman demanded for immediate explanation from President Muhammadu Buhari and the Kano state Governor Abdullahi Ganduje “on the attempted assassination of the party’s Deputy National Chairman PDP Presidential Campaign Council and former Governor of Kano state, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso”.
Mr Secondus said the party demands an independent inquest into the attempted murder of Mr Kwankwaso and wants Nigerians and the international community to “note the dimension of APC’s intolerance to opposing views,” as reported by Daily Nigerian.
“One wonders if this new violence on our leaders is not coming as a fallout of the shoot at sight directive of the President, and the added threat of the Chief Army staff that they tend to obey the directive?
Mr Secondus said that the “agenda is to eliminate the former Governor of Kano state” was meant to “cause havoc enough to stop voting in the state on Saturday since they will not want to witness the massive defeat awaiting them.”
He said the former governor and other leaders of PDP have been the target of the ruling APC.
According to him, Mr Kwankwaso was marked for elimination after the unprecedented PDP Presidential rally that “clearly showed that the APC state has been taken over by the PDP”.
The national chairman said several PDP leaders have been marked for arrest and elimination in the following states of Jigawa, Katsina, Kano, Rivers, Kwara, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi and Kogi states.
Mr Secondus then charged the Kano state Police command who has confirmed the attack to ensure that the culprits are apprehended and that nothing hinders the voting process in the state.
