The Nigeria Police has berated the spokesman of the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign council, Dino Melaye, over his claims that the presidential candidate’s convoy was attacked in Maiduguri on Wednesday (today).
Naija News reported earlier that Atiku and his entourage entered the Borno State capital today to hold his presidential rally at Ramat Square.
Shortly after the commencement of the rally, it was reported that at least 74 persons were hospitalized while several vehicles were vandalized as hoodlums attacked Abubakar’s motorcade in Maiduguri.
State Police spokesman, ASP Kamilu Shatambaya, told newsmen, however, that the allegation was baseless and had no truth in it.
Shatambaya described the report that Abubakar was attacked while addressing a rally in Maiduguri as mischievous.
He described the story as fake, a hoax, and an attempt by some unguided people to incite disturbances and disrupt the peaceful coexistence of people of the state.
He explained that the rally was…
