By Bukola Olasanmi
The campaign trail of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, got attacked by political hoodlums leading to at least 74 persons hospitalized and several vehicles vandalised.
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The PDP campaign spokesperson, Senator Dino Melaye, made this known during the party’s rally in Maiduguri.
According to Melaye, the act was an attaempt to stop their campaign in the state by deploying thugs to attack the party’s candidate in the state.
He said: “They deployed their thugs to attack our convoys with stones, sticks, machetes as we left the Shehu’s Palace to come to the Ramat Square, all in an attempt to stop our rally.”
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He lamented that the thugs were deployed in many strategic locations to attack PDP supporters.
“But we want to assure them that nobody can stop us,” he vowed.
More than 10 vehicles were vandalised around the axis of Bulumkutu.