Scores of supporters of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have sustained various degrees of injuries as hoodlums attacked the convoy of the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar.
according to Dino Melaye, who is the spokesperson of Atiku/Okowa Campaign Council, the incident happened in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Wednesday.
he said that Atiku’s convoy was attacked shortly after he left the Palace of the Shehu of Borno to Ramat Square, venue of the presidential rally.
The injured persons have since been rushed to hospitals in the state capital.
Minutes before the presidential candidate took to the stage, the spokesperson for Atiku’s campaign council, Dino Melaye, announced that the convoy of the campaign council was attacked and about 174 supporters were injured in the process while over one hundred vehicles in the convoy were vandalized.
Atiku, in his address, sympathized with the injured, adding that no amount of intimidation can stop the PDP from sending the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) packing from the Aso Rock and the Borno State Government House in 2023.
