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2011: Bloody cost of violent power struggle - At least 90 killed - 209 injured weeks to elections
Governor Ali Modu Sheriff of Borno State
This year’s general elections are around the corner, but as politicians plan to celebrate their victories with wine and sumptuous meals, they may forget that their path to victory is soaked with the blood of innocent persons.
Nigerian politicians can teach the world how brutal, blustery and blood-spattered a democracy can be. On October 6, 2010, Alhaji Awana Ali Ngala, the Borno State Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), which is the ruling party in Borno State since 1999, was killed. On January 28, 2011, the gubernatorial candidate of the ANPP, Modu Fannami Gubio, a cousin of the incumbent governor was also killed by some gunmen. On December 23, 2011, 10 persons in a cultural troupe going to Bauchi to entertain President Goodluck Jonathan, lost their lives in an accident. On January 7, six persons were killed in a feud between the PDP and the Labour Party in Bayelsa State. As at the last count, Sunday Trust research threw up the figure of reported political deaths three weeks away from the 2011 polls is put at over 86. This is in spite of the fact that government, the police, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have condemned political violence.


My pains know no limit, says father of Suleija bomb blasts victim

Malam Sule Maga in Suleja, the father of late Aminu Suleiman, one of the 10 killed in Sulejia bomb blast last month told Sunday Trust that his pains did not know limits as he was the person who urged his son and bread-winner to attend the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally.

Speaking from a heart apparently shattered to smithereens, Maga said that if he had not insisted that the young man go to the rally he would have still been alive and well. Aminu was 31-years-old and a student of the College of Education, Minna.

“I cannot explain how painful it is to lose Aminu. I never realised that yesterday would be the last time I would be with him. Now, it is going to be tough for the family, as he was our shining star. As an illiterate, I wanted him to follow me to the place so that he could explain to me what the politicians had to say. He told me that he was busy, but I impressed upon him that his attendance was important. As a respectful child that he was, he quickly rushed off to school, came home to pick me on his motorcycle to the venue and we dispersed into the crowd”, he said.

He stated that he and the deceased were not within the same location at the rally, adding that he only heard the sound of the explosion, not knowing that Adamu was among the fatal casualties.



I am afraid of returning to Suleja, says bedridden Bello

For Ahmed Bello, a father of five since his discharge from the hospital, the fear of returning to Suleja has made him stay put in Minna for a while as he recounts with tragic reflection his ordeal in the midst of the blast.

While attributing his survival to sheer lack explained that the build up of the PDP rally was very exciting. He had no inclination that there could be detonations which would rock the field. He was just getting set to leave the venue when all hell was let loose suddenly.

“I was in Suleja where the Zone A rally of the PDP was taking place. I cannot recall the time, but after the National Anthem when the governor had finished his speech, I was trying to locate my car. As I was approaching the gate, I just heard a big sound and I said a prayer, because I usually pray when I hear any sudden sound.

“After my prayer, all I saw was darkness. The next thing I felt was that I was on the ground and I could not move my legs. I had to drag myself to where I heard some sounds.”

Bello said his while life experience flashed past him within seconds. He never knew that that fateful day could have been his last on earth. He said the impact and the peppery pain of splinters and shrapnel’s that sank deep into his flesh sent clouds of darkness on him as he gradually lost consciousness.

“There was darkness everywhere and when the light returned, I saw many people lying down, some dead, while some were crying. It occurred to me that I could not walk. I had to drag myself to the side of the road before help came my way,” he said.

I will never forget the day of the blast, says 13-year-old victim

For a thirteen-year-old boy in the bomb ravaged Government Secondary School, Suleja, the experience will last him his whole lifetime as he intimated that he would have lost his life in the blast.

He stated that he was at the spot where the explosion went off. He was there to buy carrot for his friends. He told Sunday Trust that he later learnt that the carrot seller died instantly, just less than half an hour after leaving the man.

The boy who gave his name as Hamisu said he wondered if he had stayed longer with the carrot seller if the same fate would have befallen him. For him, the incident was tale of horror.


I saw those who attacked and killed my son, says father of victim of Jigawa violence

Residents of Babura Local Government area of Jigawa State were thrown into misery on Sunday March the 6th, when supporters of PDP and those of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) clashed leading to the death of one Rabiú Ibrahim Yakubu.

A father of two and a political associate of Babura Local Government Council Chairman, Alhaji Amin Ahmad, the deceased was said to have been slaughtered. The deceased’s father, Malam Ibrahim Yakubu told Sunday Trust that, “I saw the attackers while going to the former chairman of the Local Government Council, Alhaji Sani Haru. They went there, searched the house, but nobody was found there. They moved to the residence of the present chairman, Alhaji Aminu Ahmad”.

Yakubu said “the late Rabiú was working at Aminu’s house. When the attackers entered the chairman’s house, they started attacking whoever came their way. As a result they brutally killed my son.

“I wonder why they killed him. My son was not contesting for any political office. Why was he killed like a political rival? Nevertheless, while I’m calling on the police to speed-up investigation into the matter, I leave everything to God because I have no means to continue following the case to its logical conclusion,” he lamented.

He noted that Rabiu was the breadwinner of his family, hence the killers had put the deceased’s family members into serious hardships.

Sunday Trust observed that several other persons, including an orderly to the Local Government Chairman were brutally injured during the political fight. The orderly was said to have exhausted his ammunitions in his effort to rescue his boss. The chairman was said to have jumped into seven houses of his neighbours before he could finally be rescued by a motorcycle rider, who picked him to a hidden place.

Investigation in Babura Local Government by Sunday Trust revealed that several temporary political parties’ offices and flags belonging to both PDP and ACN were destroyed by the angry youths.

Sunday Trust also observed that, a combined team of armed conventional and mobile policemen were conducting stop-and-search of any vehicle that coming or going out from Babura town. Speaking to our correspondent, the Sarkin Ban Ringin and District Head of Babura Alhaji Hadi Mustapha described the violence as animalistic.

“Politics, as catalyst of transforming the society from bad to good, has now been turned into weapon of destroying human lives and property. It is now practised with sadism, hatred and victimization” noted Mustapha.

According to him, “it is quite unfortunate for somebody to slaughter another human being like a ram in the name of politics. This has clearly shown that we are retrogressing from development progress to the opposite.

“It has become imperative for security agents to fish out the culprits for prosecution. I am suggesting a regular security meeting at the local government level and police should be equipped with modern communication gadgets to facilitate their job as security organ,” he stressed.

The police authorities in the state condemned the incident, but claimed that normalcy has returned to the town. The Public Relations Officer of the Jigawa State Police Command, ASP Abdu Jinjiri told Sunday Trust that, the deceased was a PDP member.

According to him, 10 persons were arrested and police personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department of the Command had begun the investigation with a view to fishing out the culprits.

The council chairman Alhaji Aminu Ibrahim Info, told Sunday Trust that, they were returning to Babura from campaign last Saturday when someone called him on phone, informing him that some thugs had burnt down the PDP office.

He added that, the next day, Sunday around 10:30 AM the same people attacked him and his people at his residence in their effort to gain entrance. Their aim, he noted, was to kill him, but he was saved by his police orderly, who shot in the air to scare the attackers.

Also speaking, the Babura local government chairman of the PDP, Inusa Alhaji Mati Babura, said all their party offices in the local government, posters, and billboards were burnt to ashes by ACN supporters, adding that his car was set on fire.

Commenting on the matter, the Jigawa state Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Dr Abubakar Hassan Fulata, said, “We were in Babura for campaign when suddenly some thugs suspected to be Yan-Kalare hired from Gombe by the PDP attacked our buses. They smashed various windscreens and injured our boys”.

“I wonder how the PDP can stop Badaru from carrying out his political campaign in his home town. When Governor Lamido went to Babura, did any ACN member attack his supporters. Why the ACN and why in Babura, the home town of the ACN’s governorship candidate?” he asked.

Dr Fulata, however, said, as far the ACN was concerned, its people were the victims of the unfortunate incident, noting that, “our boys have been injured, while our campaign vehicles were damaged by the PDP supporters”.



We have lost our precious ones, lament relatives of Port Harcourt 10

At least 10 persons died in the Port Harcourt stampede which occurred on Saturday, February 12, 2011 during the South-South zonal rally of President Goodluck Jonathan. Nine women died in the stampede. They were mostly supporters of the PDP. Security operatives from the Presidency who allegedly caused the stampede when they locked the main exit of the Liberation Stadium, preventing people from going out while Jonathan was making speech.


Hon. Presley Wene Woke, first son of late Mrs. Violet Woroma Woke expressed his grief thus: “Anyway, it has happened and I will not tell you that I don’t feel bad, I feel bad because, she is my mother. Her blood runs in me and for sure, if anything like this happens, we feel bad. I am consoled in the fact that my mother died fighting for the sustainability of democracy in Nigeria.”


On his part, Chief Nnamdi Wokeh, paramount ruler of Rumuehio-Okania community, Rumuokwuta and another son of late Mrs Woke, lement: “I feel so bad that my mother was among those who died during the stampede because she is my mother and she carried me for nine months. Everybody knows that death is a journey you will embark on and never come back. I am feeling her absence very much because I have lost her as my mother. I will not eat my mother’s food again as she used to call me to come and eat in the main house.

“My mother’s wish before her death was that her children grow up to the standard meant for every human being so that she can enjoy her children during could lifetime, since she started nurturing the children when her husband died at a very tender age. Her dream was to see the re-election of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, come April 2011. We are all aware that my mother went there on active political activity and she died. The stampede must have taken place through one miscalculation or the other. Government cannot bring people together for a political purpose only to turn round and kill them. What happened at the rally that led to the deaths is beyond human comprehension. It is only God that knows how that ugly incident came about. There is no amount of compensation that will be enough for a life but in all, if somebody died in active service, like my mother, who followed the PDP campaign train till her death, her dependents need to be taken care of.”


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who are this biafran. Calabar people or akwa ibom people or Ogoni people. ?

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I dont think igbos are thinking of revenge. nollywood would die.

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I dont think igbos are thinking of revenge. nollywood would die.

if he had Ph.D in Zoology was he  teaching at the university of Port harcourt.?

oil pollution can be clear up. remember alum and water. how much can you pay for solution.

did not pick vice president before the election.

is jonathan thinking only about himself?