Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s presidential campaign, Northeast Business Community for Atiku 2023 in Gombe State suffered a setback, Tuesday, 1st February, when suspected political thugs in Gombe destroyed sections of his campaign office in the state.
The thugs, Daylight Reporters, impeccably gathered, stormed the Atiku Campaign Office located at Shango Quarters along Bauchi Road, not long after setting ablaze the State Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) near Bauchi Motor Park, also along Bauchi Road.
The incident came days after the PDP received thousands decampees from the APC, including a serving member of Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Yaya Bauchi Tongo, immediate past Commissioner of Health, Dr Ahmed Gana and Public Relations Officer of the APC in Kwami LGA, Kallamu kwami.
A PDP governorship aspirant in the state, Mohammed Jibrin Barde, who visited the burnt Secretariat immediately after the incident, described the destruction of the Gombe PDP Secretariat as not only a trend but entrenched by the state’s present APC administration.
He accused Governor Inuwa Yahaya of perpetrating violence in the state over the last two years.
The destruction of the Gombe PDP Secretariat seems a yearly occurrence as, Daylight Reporters recalls, the Secretariat suffered a similar destruction last year when the opposition party blamed the ruling APC for the incident.