In a documentary titled ‘Essential Muhammadu Buhari,’ the Nigerian president recalled the attack on his convoy in Kaduna state a year before assuming office.
The attack took place in the city’s busy Kawo market area. According to The Cable, three of his security guards were injured and taken to the hospital.
Speaking about the attack, the president stated that the armored Land Rover vehicle gifted to him by then-Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso saved his life, according to Vanguard Newspaper.
He said:
“I think Kwankwaso was being generous. He gave me an armored Land Rover vehicle. He said I should use it because he believed the competition I was going on involved people who would like to eliminate me.
“I was going to Kano from Kaduna in that jeep and a vehicle wanted to overtake us but my escort stopped them and they detonated the bomb.
“When I looked, I saw pieces of human beings. None of us in the vehicle were injured. But somehow I saw blood on me because of the number of people killed outside by the bomb.”