Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has refuted claims that the opposition All Progressive Congress, APC, instigated the stoning of President Goodluck Jonathan during his Presidential campaign in Bauchi state, revealing that Senator Bala Mohammed, the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, was actually responsible. Yuguda shockingly revealed that the minister hired the thugs that stoned the president’s convoy in Bauchi last Thursday. Following the stoning, the presidency had flayed the actions just as a number of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftains had accused the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, of instigating attacks on the president in the north. But Governor Yuguda, however, rebutted the claim as he stated that the stoning of the president’s convoy was instigated by Senator Mohammmed to embarrass him, Yuguda, as not being on ground in the state. Both men, members of the PDP and associates of the president, were present at the PDP presidential campaign rally in Bauchi following which the president’s convoy was pelted with stones. The minister was also pelted during the rally. Yuguda said the FCT minister secretly imported the thugs to cause trouble at the venue of the campaign rally in Buachi last Thursday to give the president the erroneous impression that he (Yuguda) was not on ground in his state as the executive governor. He said it was apparent that the minister was up to some mischief when he refused to join the central planning committee headed by him to plan the presidential rally but went ahead to set up his own committee whose agenda was not known to anyone else. The governor thus charged the minister to apologise to Nigerians over the embarrassment he caused the president and his visitors to Bauchi during his visit to the state. But the minister has denied the allegation levelled against him by the governor, saying that it was nothing but concoction of lies to tarnish his image. The minister, in response to the issue said it was inconceivable that he would contemplate importing thugs into the venue of an event attended by his boss and President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, whom he holds in very high esteem. The minister wondered why the thugs said to have been imported by him into the stadium threw missiles and booed him while he was accessing the rally. In the meantime, the APC has stated that it has been vindicated by the development and thanked the governor for his revelation, recalling it had earlier claimed the stoning incidents were fallouts from the governorship primaries in the PDP states.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:31:30 +0000
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