The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa State, Yunana Iliya, has condemned an alleged attack on him, the former Deputy Governor and other members of the executive council under the administration of former Governor Aliyu Akwe Doma.
Iliya and others in the convoy of the EFCC came under an attack by some youths on Wednesday while the agency was taking the former governor back to custody after a court ruling.
While a spear said to have been thrown at him through the glass of the car missed him by a whisker, it nevertheless slashed the ear of the former Commissioner of Information under Doma’s Mr Mamman Alakayi who is said to be recovering from the injury.
The PDP chairman who spoke to newsmen at the High Court premises where Doma’s trial was ongoing, described the attack on him and others as barbaric and uncivilized. He said it was caused by illiterate people.
Iliya who described the attack as unfortunate said the attackers took the laws into their own hands and went about humiliating and destroying people’s properties, saying that they were guarded by ignorance.
The chairman who wondered what the matter at hand had to do with political parties, said that it was rather a case between the former Governor Doma, nine others and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He, however, said that the matter had already been reported to the Inspector General of the Police in writing and copied the Commissioner of Police, the SSS Director and the National Security Adviser to the President.
In the meantime, Iliya said that an appeal had been made to PDP supporters in the state not to embark on reprisal mission and should remain law-abiding.
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Party leader decries attack in Nasarawa
