A former Governor of Gombe State, Senator Muhammad Danjuma Goje (APC-Gombe Central), has narrated how the Aide-De-Camp of his successor, Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, blocked and attacked his convoy on his way to attend the wedding of his granddaughter, Fatima Abdullahi Musa, in Gombe town.
The former Governor said this in a statement issued by his media aide, Lilian Nworie, on Saturday in Gombe.
Goje said he arrived Gombe from Abuja via Gombe Airport in Lawanti, peacefully until the governor’s aides blocked the road.
He said: “Distinguished senator’s trip was peaceful until when the governor’s aides including his aide-de-camp blocked the road. For two hours, they unleashed terror on Senator Goje and those in his convoy.
“It is unfortunate that one live was lost and many cars vandalised including the Senator’s vehicle. They smashed the windscreen. All efforts to make the governor’s aide-de-camp remove the blockade yielded no result as he insisted that he got instruction from the above that the former governor should not be allowed into the town.”
Nworie said the Governor’s driver, Aminu Hula, and Gombe State All Progressives Congress Youth Leader, Kawu Lero, have been arrested by the Gombe State Police Command.
She said: “They have been arrested but the aide-de-camp who led the people to attack the former governor had since returned to those who sent him. The aide-de-camp said he was acting based on order from the above. In this case, it is his boss, Gombe State Governor.”
She said the former governor as a peace loving leader of the state has urged his teeming supporters to be calm and law abiding and called for independent investigation of matter.
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