Chris Mamman, the
immediate past National
President of Eggon Cultural
Association and a
gubernatorial candidate of
the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has been
kidnapped by unknown
gunmen men, his
campaign director said
Monday.
Mr. Mamman was seized
Sunday night few hours
after angry youths attacked
him and burnt his car at
what supposed to be a
peace meeting between
him and other
governorship candidates,
including the immediate
past Minister for
Information, Labaran
Maku.
Mr. Mamman is among 13
other aspirants vying for
the governorship of
Nasarawa State in the 2015
general elections on the
platform of PDP.
Mr. Mamman was picked
in his house in Lafia
around 8.30 p.m. after a
mob attacked him and
burnt his car at the palace
of Aren Eggon, Bala
Angbazo, in Nasarawa
Eggon, the Director General
of Chris
Mamman’s campaign
organization, Nawani
Aboki, told PREMIUM
TIMES.
He claimed the attack on
the candidate and his
subsequent abduction were
the handiwork of his
political opponents.
“Our candidate was in
Nasarawa Eggon as part of
Effort by the Eggon
traditional council to
ensure that they are able
to speak with one voice
and have one candidate but
as our candidate was
approaching the place mob
came out and accosted him
and manhandled him but
was later rescued,” he said.
“All other candidates of
Eggon extraction where
there; Maku, and Ewuga
but we don’t know who
might have masterminded
the attack among them.
“Even after he was
rescued, we were told later
in the day that some
unknown people came and
took him away and we
don’t know who the person
is and we are yet to make
contact with him 12 hours
after,” he said.
Mr. Aboki said his team
will eventually inform the
police if at the end of the
day they are unable to find
him.
However, the state Police
Public Relations Officer,
PPRO, Umar Numan, said
he was yet to be briefed
over the matter. He said
investigations will
commence when such
report was forwarded.
On Sunday, Mr. Mamman
was in the palace on the
invitation of the
paramount ruler alongside
Solomon Ewuga, a senator,
and Mr. Maku, to discuss
how to pick a consensus
candidate among them to
represent the Eggon
interest in the 2015 general
elections.
They all escaped unhurt as
angry youth stormed the
palace of the paramount
ruler of the Eggon
people, on Sunday evening.
The traditional ruler was
hosting a reconciliatory
meeting between three
Eggon sons seeking to be
Nasarawa governor under
the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP which resulted
in the youth, setting ablaze
a Toyota Corolla belonging
to Chris Mamman.