Fighting broke out at the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP office in Kano among political thugs and party supporters who were at the office yesterday to witness the inauguration of the state committee members at the new office at Court Road, Kano.
An eyewitness, Aminu Balami, who was a PDP supporter, said that “as the event was about to end with closing prayers, we just saw about seven young men coming in from nowhere. Before the twinkling of an eye they just brought out machetes and began attacking everyone at the office”.
Balami confirmed that together they retaliated and wounded all the attackers. “All of them sustained injuries; they were not successful, ” he maintained.
A number of young men were seen fleeing the area with various degrees of injuries, while others were seen in police vehicles with blood all over their bodies and were taken away.
A policeman, who simply gave his name as Mailafiya, said that he captured one of the attackers and successfully confiscated his machete after he had already wounded some persons. According to him, on their way to police headquarters in Bompai-Kano, the assailant tried to escape but was recaptured.
There were many police patrol vehicles and anti-bomb cars around the secretariat and officers were seen asking the people around how the incident occurred and whose faction of the PDP was at fault.
A reporter overheard a police officer saying that they must work according to the instruction of the Police AIG, Zone 1, which is on the side of the Tukur-led PDP IN Kano.
He emphatically said that those arrested, if they are supporters of the G7 governors, must have been taken to Abuja to avoid state government intervention in the investigation process.
Residents of the area were seen fleeing the area with their children for the fear of what might come after the police had left the area.
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