Unidentified hoodlums today attacked the offices of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano at the inauguration of the Zonal Committees which took place at the state secretariat.
A caretaker committee of the state PDP, under Hassan Kefayos, was inaugurated just last week following the expiration of the tenure of Adamu Aliyu Sumaila, the erstwhile state chairman.
As provided by the constitution of the party the committee formed the zonal committees. Our source said that the attack happened immediately after the formed committees were inaugurated, at about 1:30pm. The source added that as they were about to undertake the closing prayer, some three unidentified young men forced themselves into the venue and disrupted the meeting. They stabbed people with knives and other weapons.
The Public Relations Officer of the caretaker committee, Jaâ’afar Sani Bello, who was stabbed in the neck after he had missed a previous attempt to stab him in the back, was taken to the hospital along with three others who were also injured.
The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Musa Daura, confirmed the incident and disclosed that the police have started investigations, and that four arrests have been made. He urged politicians to avoid overheating the polity, stressing the security challenges facing the state.
It would be recalled that there has been rancor within the rank and file of the PDP in Kano since the national headquarters sent in the caretaker committee to fill the vacuum created by the departing former State chairman, Alhaji Sumaila.
When Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and other six governors of PDP parted ways with the national secretariat of the party under the National Chairman Bamanga Tukur, there began a series of hiccups within the party in all the affected states.
Sanin Bala, an eyewitness of today’s incident, expressed the fear that such happenings do not augur well for the development of democracy in the country, especially looking with the 2015 elections in view.
A journalist from Radio Nigeria, Pyramid FM, Abubakar Adamu Rano, who was at the inauguration ceremony, confirmed to his colleagues that what he saw was hell. He said that he and some other people had to jump down from the two-storey building where the meeting was taking place, and he received some minor injuries.