One person died in Jigawa State on Tuesday at a campaign rally of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kazaure Local Government Area of the state.
The commissioner of police in the state, Emmanuel Ekot, told PREMIUM TIMES that the police were following the suspected killers who they said fled to the neighborhood of Kano after committing the crime.
“The police are on top of the situation, the (prime) suspect fled to Kano. It is a conflict in the party that is loyal to a certain candidate that disagrees among themselves. They are members of the same APC, it is not a conflict between two parties,” the police commissioner said.
Jigawa Governor Muhammad Badaru presided over the APC governorship campaign rally in Kazaure on Tuesday where violent clashes between rival youth groups of APC supporters resulted in the death of one person.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the deceased was a supporter of the party’s senatorial candidate for Jigawa North West District, Babangida Husseini.
Residents identified the deceased as Halliru Lafka, a resident of Kazaure town. The killing sparked protests by residents who burned billboards of the senatorial candidate, Mr. Husseini, accusing him of allegedly harboring political thugs, who were disrupting the peace of the city.
Mr. Husseini could not immediately be reached for comment on the incident. A known phone number was not connected Wednesday morning and evening.
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