Atiku’s campaign office in Gombe vandalised by thugs, PDP secretariat set ablaze

By our reporter/ The campaign office of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, in Gombe state was early on Tuesday vandalised by suspected political thugs.

The thugs who broke the office windows and other items like Air Conditioners, also burnt the Gombe State Secretariat of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

According to eye witness account, personnel of the Fire Service with assistance from men of the Nigerian Police Force helped extinguish the fire at the PDP Secretariat.

The state chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), General Audu Kwaskebe (Rtd), while briefing reporters on the incident, accused Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Kawu Lero, of spearheading the destruction of the party’s office.

He said they had written a petition to the state police command for the appropriate action.

However, the PRO of the ruling APC in the state, Moses Kyari, alleged that it was PDP members that set their office on fire, “due internal crisis over control of the party structure.”

According to him, a structure bearing posters of Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya were also touched by the vandals.