For the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) presidential candidate, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, it was a rough deal for him yesterday in Gusau, Zamfara State as suspected political thugs moved against his convoy.
The angry youths barricaded and stoned his motorcade as he approached the palace of Emir of Gusau, Alhaji Muhammad Kabir Danbaba to pay him homage.
It took the intervention of the police and other security personnel to disperse the crowd before Ribadu was sneaked into the palace.
It was learnt that the action of youths’ attack on Ribadu might not be unconnected with the intra party crisis in the state chapter of the ACN following the replacement of its governorship candidate, Alhaji Sarki Surajo with Alhaji Bala Muhammad Dansadau.
The aggrieved youths, who stormed the Emir’s palace complained against the way the state leadership of the party replaced their candidate and insisted that Ribadu must work with him.
Surajo has continued to maintain that he remains the ACN standardbearer in the state.
At the venue of his rally, Ribadu accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of fuelling the political crisis rocking the country.
“The party (PDP) in its guest for power is gradually planting seed of discord and heating up the polity. It seems most Nigerians do not have confidence in the party and its government,” he said.
At the Gusau airstrip, where his supporters gathered, Ribadu said the antecedents of the PDP in the last 12 years shows that it is the major problem of Nigeria.
In another development, the Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organisation yesterday said the resolve of President Goodluck Jonathan to provide good leadership for the country in the next dispensation informed his vigorous campaigns across the federation.
Its Director-General, Senator Dalhatu Tafida, who spoke on Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) intense campaigns in all the 36 states of the federation, explained that the action was due to the fact that the other presidential candidates were not being underrated by the President and the ruling party.
He said: “Whether they pose any threat or not to us, we are not underrating any candidate no matter the party he belongs. They are all forces to contend with, so we are not leaving any stone unturned in our effort to outwit them.”
Jonathan is the only presidential candidate for the April elections that has so far taken his campaigns to all the states in the country.
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