National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade
Adams Oshiomhole has said that Saturday election was a referendum
between a man of integrity and a man without integrity, saying
Nigerians loudly voted in favour of integrity.
Oshiomhole also asked President Muhammadu Buhari to order
security agents to fish out all those involved, or those who
sponsored killing of innocent Nigerians who came out to vote in
last Saturday elections.
Addressing a news conference at the party Secretariat in Abuja,
Oshiomhole said the PDP Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar who
signed a peace accord going into the election knowing that only
person will emerge winner of the election, but prefer to stand
truth on its head by adducing reasons while he think the elections
were rigged.
Going into memory lane as to the records of votes scored by the
PDP in previous election, he said the APC scored less than in the
2019 election than it did in 2015, describing Atiku as a poor
student of statistical data.
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Armed Bandits Kill 5, Abduct 35 in Niger
State
Thirty-five persons have been declared missing in 17 communities
in the Rafi and Shiroro Local Government Areas of Niger State,
which were sacked by bandits.
It was learnt that five persons were killed during the
attack.
The Punch reports that a victim of the attack in Shiroro, Aliyu
Shuaibu that the bandits were cattle rustlers, who were in the
habit of raiding communities in the affected areas, “but this time,
they kidnapped our people in large numbers.”
“The armed men stormed our village in broad daylight and shot
repeatedly in the air; we had no choice but to flee into the
forest. Some of the families of my community members kidnapped by
the bandits have paid ransom to secure their freedom. At times, we
go the extra mile to source for money to free some of the villagers
held hostage by the bandits,” Shuaibu stated.
Another victim, Hafsat Ibrahim, said the attackers abducted
women, children and men, and took away their valuables.
Hassan Garba, who was abducted alongside his siblings, said he
was asked to provide N11m as ransom for their release.
“They released me to go and look for N11m ransom for the release
of my siblings, but I got only N1m and they released all of us. I
sold all our belongings to raise the N1m to secure the freedom of
my siblings, otherwise, they would have been killed by now,” he
said.
Governor Abubakar Bello has vowed to tackle the menace of the
hoodlums, promising that his administration would provide adequate
security for the people.
Bello made the vow when he visited the over 4,600 persons, who
were displaced by the attackers and camped in the Kagara and
Pandogari primary schools.
He stated that machinery was being put in place to ensure the
quick return of the victims to their communities.
“We are here to assess the situation and to do whatever we can
so that our people can return to their homes. We are taking actions
that will further improve peace and security in the affected
communities,” the governor said.
Source: https://punchng.com/35-missing-after-bandits-attack-niger-communities/[1]