MAIDUGURI – There may be no end yet to the orgy of violence and
incessant killings in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, as gunmen in
separate attacks on Tuesday shot dead two chieftains of the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) for Southern Borno Senatorial District and
Shehuri ward at about 8pm.
The PDP chieftains are Alhaji Ibrahim Usman Gula, PDP zonal vice
chairman of Southern Borno Senatorial District; and Hajiya Gambo, the
PDP women leader for Shehuri ward in Maiduguri metropolis.
A top official of PDP, who does not want his name in print, disclosed
that Alhaji Gula and Hajiya Gambo were trailed to their respective
residences by the gunmen, before they were shot dead before their wife
and husband.
He said: “they were killed in cold blood near the Maiduguri
International Hotel (MAIH) and Shehuri ward of the metropolis, before
the Joint Task Force (JTF) and police cordoned the areas for over an
hour prevent further attacks and killings. The bodies of the slain party
officials have already been buried on Tuesday, according to Islamic
rites at the Gwange cemetery.”
Speaking on the motives behind the assassination, he said: “prior to
their killings by unknown gunmen, Gula and Gambo actively participated
at the Town Hall meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan last Friday at
the Government House Multipurpose Hall over the Boko Haram insurgency
and withdrawals of JTF from Borno state.
“These killings are a clear case of cold blood murder and are
condemnable. Security agents must unravel the circumstance that led to
the gunning down of these PDP officials at their residences in Umarari
and Shehuri wards.”
The Borno police commissioner, Alhaji Yuguda Abdullahi Tuesday confirmed the separate incidents in a telephone chat.
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