Some revelations by Bauchi State Governor Isa
Yuguda on the stoning of President Goodluck
Jonathan in the state during a campaign rally
was said to have shocked the Presidency and the
national leadership of the Peoples Democratic
Party.
Yuguda, in an interview with the BBC Hausa service,
said that the stoning and the attack on the President
were carried out by members of the ruling PDP.
Before now, the Presidency and the ruling party had
accused the opposition All Progressives Congress of
being the mastermind of the attack.
Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs,
Prof. Rufai Alkali, and the PDP Presidential Campaign
Office, however insisted that the attack was carried
out by the APC.
But Yuguda, a member of the National Executive
Committee of the PDP, insisted that those who
organised the youths that threw stones and pelted
the President with sachet water, were members of
the party from Abuja.
The governor said, “I am sure and let the world
know that the people who did this thing were
PDP members and those politicians in Abuja were
the ones behind it; they were not APC members.
“They found these youths on the road and gave
them brooms and satchets of water and they
instructed them that when the President was
passing they should raise the brooms and throw
the satchets of water at him.
“They did that so that the President would think
that Isa Yuguda is against him. They have been
telling him in Abuja that we are not supporting
him. They did that to show the President that Isa
Yuguda is nothing in Bauchi, to show that despite
being an indigene of Bauchi, Isa Yuguda could not
be respected with his guests in Bauchi.”
Yuguda also said that he and members of his cabinet
were not aware of the plan ahead of the rally, saying
they were taken by surprise.
Reacting to the governor’s statement, the Deputy
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji
Ibrahim Jalo, said that only the governor was in a
position to clarify his statement on the matter.
Jalo said, “How can my party be organising stoning?
Anyway, Yuguda has spoken on the issue. He should
be the one to clarify his position on the matter.
“I was in Bauchi that day and I saw what happened.
The governor said it was done by PDP members. Ask
him to speak further on it.”
However, a presidency source described the
governor’s statement as unfortunate.
“How can he speak like that? We have condemned it;
the party has condemned it and now, he’s blaming
the party for this. That’s bad,” a presidential aide,
who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was
not allowed to speak officially on the matter, told
our correspondent.
The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, said he was happy that Yuguda was able
to summon the courage to clarify what happened in
the state.
Mohammed said, “Governor Yuguda’s interview has
vindicated the APC and confirmed our position that
the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan will stop at
nothing to scuttle this election.
“It is sad that in their desperation PDP and Jonathan
are ready to bring down the nation.
“Thanks to Governor Yuguda. The whole world now
sees the hypocrisy and perfidy of President Jonathan
and the PDP.
“In Jos, Kano, Bauchi, Rivers and other states we
have witnessed electoral violence, PDP are the
instigators and aggressors.”
But the Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP
presidential campaign organisation, Femi Fani-
Kayode, warned the APC on Sunday to stop blaming
the ruling party for the attacks on the President.

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