Two weeks after some youths in Plateau state set ablaze a bus (pictured) belonging to the Goodluck Jonathan campaign organisation, a mob in Suleja, Niger state, on Sunday burnt two more campaign vehicles of the president.
The incident happened on the same day when John Kerry, the United States secretary of states, visited Nigeria to meet with Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari, the main contenders of next month’s general election.
Kerry had told both leaders to accept the outcome of the election in good fate and also urge their supporters to shun violence.
However, the pre-election violence that has been recorded so far has raised security concerns about the poll.
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Already, a number of ex militants in the Niger Delta have threatened to avenge attacks on Jonathan’s convoy in the north.
Apart from the torching of his campaign vehicles, the president has been attacked in Katsina, Kano and Bauchi, where six operatives of the department of state services sustained serious injuries and some persons were also killed.
With less than three weeks to the election, Nigerians are wishing that the presidential candidates would keep to the terms of the peace accord that they consented to.
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As at the time of filing this report, the police is yet to confirm the latest attack.
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Is this the kind of opposition Nigerians wants?one who’s despiration to grab power has become extremely troubling with these pockets of violence against the presidential convoy. Politics should be played with all sence of civilty.the leaders of the APC should do more in enlightening their supporters. We have the right to vote whoever we want without being treathened because their is absolutely no monopoly of violence.my prayer is that we do not destroy what took us so Much to get.
Pdp burnt banners of all APC contestants and even tried to remove all our branded vehicles on the road and we were protesting against pvc buying and the pdp guys that were arrested with over 7,000 pvc cards talba the governor asked the cp of police to release them. Look people pdp have been intimidating people too much and their cases are not reported on the news because they pay journalist